War and Words: Horror and Heroism in the Literature of WarfareSara Munson Deats, Lagretta Tallent Lenker, Merry G. Perry Lexington Books, 2004 - 353 Seiten 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 it represents 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. |
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Stories of War and Peace Sacred Secular and Holy | 15 |
The Chalice and the Blade Engendering War in Classical Literature | 39 |
Violence Terrorism and War in Marlowes Tamburlaine Plays | 61 |
Henry V at War Christian King or Model Machiavel | 79 |
Born for Opposition Lord Byrons Irresistible TugofWar | 99 |
Civilized Barbarity Melville on the Dark Paradoxes of Waging Modern War | 121 |
Edithas War How Glorious | 141 |
Make War on War A Shavian Conundrum | 161 |
ARMS AND THE OTHER VOICES FROM THE MARGINS | 209 |
Seule la culture desinteressee Virginia Woolf Gender and Culture in Time of War | 211 |
Propaganda Militarism and the Home Front in Helen Zenna Smiths Not So QuietStepdaughters of War | 231 |
Whos Speaking? What Are They Saying? Women Words and War | 249 |
War of Words War with and against in African American Literature | 275 |
Marlowe in tempore belli | 291 |
Comprehensive Bibliography | 313 |
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Words War and Peace The Nature of Orwells Pacifism | 183 |
Understanding Hemingways Multiple Voices of War A Rhetorical Study | 193 |
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African American ambivalence argues Arms attitudes audience battle British Byron New York Caesar Caesar and Cleopatra Christopher Marlowe Civil Cleopatra conflict critics culture death Drama edited Editha England English Ernest Hemingway essay feminist fiction fight Figure force French Gandhi Gearson gender George Noel Gordon glory Greek Heartbreak House Helen Hemingway Hemingway's Henry Henry's Herman Melville hero heroic Howells human ideals Iliad killing King language literary literature Lord Byron Lysistrata male Marlowe's masculine Melville's military modern narrative narrator nation Noel Gordon novel Orwell Oxford University Press pacifist patriotic peace perspective Poetical political postmodern readers Reading Notes religious rhetoric Roberts sacred Saint Joan scene Shakespeare Shaw's slave Smithy Smithy's social society soldiers story Tamburlaine plays terrorism Three Guineas tion tradition Trojan Women victory views violence Virginia Woolf voice W. D. Howells warfare warrior wars woman words wounded writing Zenocrate