Title: War /
Authors: Vernon, Alex, 1967-
Publisher: Salem Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: War in literature.; War and literature.; Literature History and criticism Theory, etc.
Abstract: Provides both an introduction and a cross-section of the field, proposing why one should, and how one might, study the literature of war. Contributors offer samplings from the vast body of war-related literature and film, from the Iliad and Shakespeare to documentary films about the wars in Iraq in Afghanistan in the first decade of the 21st century. --From publisher description.
Contents: On war / Alex Vernon -- Critical contexts. Reading the Iliad: a history / Will Hacker ; Shakespeare's Henry V and just war theory / Mark A. Heberle ; American literature of the nuclear age / Doug Davis ; Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and the Civil War: inventing the poetry of mass death / Ed Folsom -- Critical readings. Testaments of youth: writing the US war in Vietnam / Philip Beidler ; Other worlds, other wars: science fiction reinvents war / Tim Blackmore ; Women writing war: female voices from the combat zone / Catherine Calloway ; Focus Afghanistan: deep documentary immersion and genre debt in Restrepo, Camp Victory, Afghanistan, and Armadillo / Douglas A. Cunningham ; The veterans' tale: causes and consequences / Pat C. Hoy II ; 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 / Tom McGuire ; Strangers in strange lands: distorted landscape in the modern American military memoir / John Nelson ; The captivity narrative: an American genre / Robert C. Doyle ; War and witnessing / Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton ; Native American military involvement in (de)colonial contexts / Lindsey Claire Smith ; "Stubborn experiments": bearing witness in Holocaust literature / Dorian Stuber -- Resources. Additional works on war ; Bibliography.