Authoring war: literary representation of war from the Iliad to Iraq
Material type: TextPublication details: New York Cambridge University Press 2011Description: 221pISBN: 9781107003903Subject(s): War in literature | War and literatureDDC classification: 809.93358 Summary: Kate McLoughlin's Authoring War is an ambitious and pioneering study of war writing across all literary genres from earliest times to the present day. Examining a range of cultures, she brings wide reading and close rhetorical analysis to illuminate how writers have met the challenge of representing violence, chaos and loss. War gives rise to problems of epistemology, scale, space, time, language and logic. She emphasises the importance of form to an understanding of war literature and establishes connections across periods and cultures from Homer to the 'War on Terror'. Exciting new critical groupings arise in consequence, as Byron's Don Juan is read alongside Heller's Catch-22 and English Civil War poetry alongside Second World War letters. Innovative in its approach and inventive in its encyclopedic range, Authoring War will be indispensable to any discussion of war representation.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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809.93358 CAM The Cambridge companion to postcolonial literary studies | 809.93358 HIS A historical companion to postcolonial literatures- continental Europe and its empires | 809.93358 HIS A historical companion to postcolonial literatures- continental Europe and its empires | 809.93358 McL/A Authoring war: literary representation of war from the Iliad to Iraq | 809.9336 SID/L Landscape and literature | 809.93384 DAV/H Humanism | 809.93384 DAV/H Humanism |
Kate McLoughlin's Authoring War is an ambitious and pioneering study of war writing across all literary genres from earliest times to the present day. Examining a range of cultures, she brings wide reading and close rhetorical analysis to illuminate how writers have met the challenge of representing violence, chaos and loss. War gives rise to problems of epistemology, scale, space, time, language and logic. She emphasises the importance of form to an understanding of war literature and establishes connections across periods and cultures from Homer to the 'War on Terror'. Exciting new critical groupings arise in consequence, as Byron's Don Juan is read alongside Heller's Catch-22 and English Civil War poetry alongside Second World War letters. Innovative in its approach and inventive in its encyclopedic range, Authoring War will be indispensable to any discussion of war representation.
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