War and Words: Horror and Heroism in the Literature of Warfare

Cover
Sara 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.

Im Buch

Ausgewählte Seiten

Inhalt

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
Index
331

Words War and Peace The Nature of Orwells Pacifism
183
Understanding Hemingways Multiple Voices of War A Rhetorical Study
193

Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen

Bibliografische Informationen