War and Literary Studies
Title | War and Literary Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Anders Engberg-Pedersen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN | 9781009055932 |
War and Literary Studies poses two main questions: First, how has war shaped the field of literary studies? And second, when scholars today study the literature of war what are the key concepts in play? Seeking to complement the extant scholarship, this volume adopts a wider and more systematic approach as it directs our attention to the relation between warfare and literary studies as a field of knowledge. What are the key characteristics of the language of war? Of gender in war? Which questions are central to the way we engage with war and trauma or war and sensation? In which ways were prominent 20th century theories such as critical theory, French postwar theory, postcolonial theory shaped by war? How might emergent concepts such as 'revolution,' 'the anthropocene' or 'capitalism' inflect the study of war and literature?
The Language of War
Title | The Language of War PDF eBook |
Author | James Dawes |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2009-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780674030268 |
A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases.
Just War Theory and Literary Studies
Title | Just War Theory and Literary Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Ty Hawkins |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2021-09-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030798631 |
This book questions when, why, and how it is just for a people to go to war, or to refrain from warring, in a post-9/11 world. To do so, it explores Just War Theory (JWT) in relationship to recent American accounts of the experience of war. The book analyses the jus ad bellum criteria of just war—right intention, legitimate authority, just cause, probability of success, and last resort—before exploring jus in bello, or the law that governs the way in which warfare is conducted. By combining just-war ethics and sustained explorations of major works of twentieth and twenty-first century American war writing, this study offers the first book-length reflection on how JWT and literary studies can inform one another fruitfully.
War and Literary Studies
Title | War and Literary Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Anders Engberg-Pedersen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 740 |
Release | 2022-12-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 100905998X |
War and Literary Studies poses two main questions: First, how has war shaped the field of literary studies? And second, when scholars today study the literature of war what are the key concepts in play? Seeking to complement the extant scholarship, this volume adopts a wider and more systematic approach as it directs our attention to the relation between warfare and literary studies as a field of knowledge. What are the key characteristics of the language of war? Of gender in war? Which questions are central to the way we engage with war and trauma or war and sensation? In which ways were prominent 20th century theories such as critical theory, French postwar theory, postcolonial theory shaped by war? How might emergent concepts such as 'revolution,' 'the anthropocene' or 'capitalism' inflect the study of war and literature?
War and American Literature
Title | War and American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Haytock |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 698 |
Release | 2021-02-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1108757162 |
This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and scholarship in the field. War and American Literature provides a comprehensive synthesis of the literature and scholarship of US war writing, illuminates how themes, texts, and authors resonate across time and wars, and provides multiple contexts in which texts and a war's literature can be framed. By focusing on American war writing, from the wars with the Native Americans and the Revolutionary War to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this volume illuminates the unique role representations of war have in the US imagination.
Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing
Title | Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Ramsey |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2023-02-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1009121324 |
Military literature was one of the most prevalent forms of writing to appear during the Romantic era, yet its genesis in this period is often overlooked. Ranging from histories to military policy, manuals, and a new kind of imaginative war literature in military memoirs and novels, modern war writing became a highly influential body of professional writing. Drawing on recent research into the entanglements of Romanticism with its wartime trauma and revisiting Michel Foucault's ground-breaking work on military discipline and the biopolitics of modern war, this book argues that military literature was deeply reliant upon Romantic cultural and literary thought and the era's preoccupations with the body, life, and writing. Simultaneously, it shows how military literature runs parallel to other strands of Romantic writing, forming a sombre shadow against which Romanticism took shape and offering its own exhortations for how to manage the life and vitality of the nation.
The Literature of the Great War Reconsidered
Title | The Literature of the Great War Reconsidered PDF eBook |
Author | P. Quinn |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2001-06-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230599893 |
This definitive volume will profoundly alter our understanding of the literature of the Great War. New critical approaches have, over the last two decades, redefined the term 'war literature' and its cultural legacy. Consisting, in equal measure, of essays by male and female scholars (from several different countries), and devoted to both familiar and lesser-known works, this book presents the many faces of Great War literary study at the millennium.