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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.