War / editor, Alex Vernon. - Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, �2013. - xii, 313 pages ; 24 cm. - Critical insights . - Critical insights. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-301) and index.

On war / Reading the Iliad: a history / Shakespeare's Henry V and just war theory / American literature of the nuclear age / Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and the Civil War: inventing the poetry of mass death / Testaments of youth: writing the US war in Vietnam / Other worlds, other wars: science fiction reinvents war / Women writing war: female voices from the combat zone / Focus Afghanistan: deep documentary immersion and genre debt in Restrepo, Camp Victory, Afghanistan, and Armadillo / The veterans' tale: causes and consequences / From Brooke's "The soldier" to Owen's "Dulce et decorum est": the demise of "beautiful death" in the new poetics of World War I / Strangers in strange lands: distorted landscape in the modern American military memoir / The captivity narrative: an American genre / War and witnessing / Native American military involvement in (de)colonial contexts / "Stubborn experiments": bearing witness in Holocaust literature / Alex Vernon -- Will Hacker ; Mark A. Heberle ; Doug Davis ; Ed Folsom -- Philip Beidler ; Tim Blackmore ; Catherine Calloway ; Douglas A. Cunningham ; Pat C. Hoy II ; Tom McGuire ; John Nelson ; Robert C. Doyle ; Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton ; Lindsey Claire Smith ; Dorian Stuber. Critical contexts : Critical readings :

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Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
War in literature.
War and literature.

PN 56 .W3 / W325 2013