From Melos to My Lai : war and survival /

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Annotation From Melos to My Laipresents an erudite, provocative and moving analysis of the accounts of violence in the literature and history of ancient Greece and in the film literature and veterans' accounts of the Vietnam War. This comparative investigation examines the nature of violence, i...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Tritle, Lawrence A., 1946-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Sujets:
Violence > Greece > History.
Violence > United States > History.
Violence > Cross-cultural studies.
Violence > Grèce > Histoire.
Violence > États-Unis > Histoire.
Violence > Études transculturelles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Violence
Geweld.
Trauma's (psychologie)
Griekse oudheid.
Vietnam-oorlog.
Greece
United States
Electronic books.
Cross-cultural studies
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: a twentieth-century American odyssey
  • 2. Listening to Thersites
  • 3. Achilles and the heroic ideal
  • 4. Clearchus' story: the heroic ideal transformed
  • 5. Penelope and waiting wives and lovers
  • 6. War, violence, and the Other
  • 7. historiography and language of violence
  • 8. Remembrance, rhetoric, and memory
  • 9. visibly dead: monuments and their meaning
  • 10. unanchored dead: mental cases and walking wounded
  • 11. Afterword.

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