War and words : representations of military conflict in literature and the media /

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Despite the vast body of texts inspired by warfare - from The Iliad to Maus - war writing is perpetually haunted by the notions of unrepresentability and inadequacy. War and Words examines the methods, conventions and pitfalls of constructing verbal accounts of military conflict in literature and th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Drąg, Wojciech (Editor ), Krogulec, Jakub (Editor ), Marecki, Mateusz (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Temas:
War in literature.
Guerre dans la littérature.
Literature & literary studies.
War & combat fiction.
Propaganda.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
War in literature
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Despite the vast body of texts inspired by warfare - from The Iliad to Maus - war writing is perpetually haunted by the notions of unrepresentability and inadequacy. War and Words examines the methods, conventions and pitfalls of constructing verbal accounts of military conflict in literature and the media. This multifocal study draws on a wide array of theoretical perspectives, including feminism, posthumanism, masculinity, trauma, spatiality and media studies, and brings together such diverse material as canonical literature, war veterans' testimonies, imaginative fiction, computer games, En.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (160 pages)
ISBN:9781443894241
1443894249

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