War
By: editor, Alex Vernon
Series: Critical insights
Publisher: Salem Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ipswich, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781429837408
Subjects: War in literature; War and literature
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.