War and Words
Horror and Heroism in the Literature of Warfare
War and Words
Horror and Heroism in the Literature of Warfare
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War and Words is a sweeping study of the profound, painful, and most significantly, defining cultural moments. Working from Homer through to Hemingway and in all traditions, some of the nation's best scholars of literature illustrate how literature and language affect not only the present but also future generations by shaping history even as they represent it. This powerful collection affirms that the humanities remain a site of the most profound reflection on human experience and historical events that have, for better and worse, shaped world civilization. War and Words offers students of literature critical tools for reading literary explorations of ambivalence toward war and provides teachers of literature a suggested syllabus for a course that has become all too necessary in a time when all our lives are touched by war.
Table of Contents
2 Introduction: War and Words
3 Part I: Arms and the Man: Voices from the Center
4 Chapter 1: Stories of War and Peace: Sacred, Secular, and Holy
5 Chapter 2: The Chalice and the Blade: Engendering War in Classical Literature
6 Chapter 3: Violence, Terrorism, and War in Marlowe's Tamburlaine Plays
7 Chapter 4: Henry V at War: Christian King or Model Machiavel
8 Chapter 5: 'Born for Opposition': Lord Bryon's Irresistible Tug-of-War
9 Chapter 6: 'Civilized Barbarity': Melville and the Dark Paradoxes of Waging Modern War
10 Chapter 7: Editha's War: 'How Glorious!'
11 Chapter 8: Make War on War: A Shavian Conundrum
12 Chapter 9: Words, War, and Peace: The Nature of Orwell's Pacifism
13 Chapter 10: Understanding Hemingway's Multiple Voices of War: A Rhetorical Study
14 Part II: Arms and the Other: Voices from the Margins
15 Chapter 11: Seule la culture désintéressée': Virginia Woolf, Gender, and Culture in Time of War
16 Chapter 12: Propaganda, Militarism, and the Home Front in Helen Zenna Smith's Not So Quiet . . . Stepdaughters of War
17 Chapter 13: Who's Speaking? What Are They Saying? Women, Words, and War
18 Chapter 14: War of Words: War 'with' and 'against' in African-American Literature
19 Epilogue: Marlowe in tempore belli
Product details
| Published | Oct 17 2004 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 368 |
| ISBN | 9780739105795 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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