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Sacrifice and modern war literature : from the battle of Waterloo to the War on Terror /

This book explores how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. Each chapter presents fresh insights into the literature of a particular conflict. The range of literature examined complements the rich array of topics related to wartim...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Houen, Alex (Editor ), Schramm, Jan-Melissa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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505 0 |a Introduction: sacrifice and modern war literature / Alex Howen and Jan-Melissa Schramm -- Wordsworth, Waterloo, and sacrifice / Philip Shaw -- The Crimean War and (self- ) sacrifice in mid-Victorian fiction / Jan-Melissa Schramm -- The Indian Mutiny and the Blood of Sacrifice / Christopher Herbert -- The poetics of American Civil War sacrifice / Randall Fuller -- Character, sacrifice, and scapegoats: Boer War fiction / Steve Attridge -- Bare death: The failing sacrifice of the Great War / Vincent Sherry -- 'Freely proffered'?: the deaths of Rupert Brooke and Julian Grenfell / Tim Kendall -- 'A bit of shrapnel': The Sigerson Shorters, the Hardys, Yeats and the Easter Rising / Matthew Campbell -- The Penny's mighty sacrifice: The Spanish Civil War and left poetics / Ian Patterson -- The motif of sacrifice in the literature and culture of the Second World War / Mark Rawlinson -- 'It is the poems you have lost': poetry and sacrifice during the Second World War / Helen Goethals -- Sacrifice and the inner organs of the Cold War citizen / Adam Piette -- The Vietnam War, American remembering, and the measure of sacrifice, fifty Years On / Philip Beidler -- 'Atrocities against his sacred poet': The Orpheus myth and the poetry of the Northern Irish troubles / David Wheatley -- Reckoning sacrifice in 'War on Terror' literature / Alex Houen -- Afterward / Alex Houen and Jan-Melissa Schramm. 
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