War

Vernon, Alex, 1967- (Added Author).

Summary: Presents a variety of new essays on the theme of war.

Record details

ISBN: 9781429837408
ISBN: 1429837403
ISBN: 9781429837880
ISBN: 1429837888
Physical Description: print
xii, 313 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, ©2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-301) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

About This Volume -- Alex Vernon ; On War -- Alex Vernon / CRITICAL CONTEXTS: Reading the Iliad: A History -- Will Hacker ; Shakespeare's Henry V and Just War Theory -- Mark A. Heberle ; American Literature of the Nuclear Age -- Doug Davis ; Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and the Civil War: Inventing the Poetry of Mass Death -- Ed Folsom / CRITICAL READINGS: Testaments of Youth: Writing the U.S. War in Vietnam -- Philip Beidler ; Other Worlds, Other Wars: Science Fiction Reinvents War -- Tim Blackmore ; Women Writing War: Female Voices from the Combat Zone -- Catherine Calloway ; Focus Afghanistan: Deep Documentary Immersion and Genre Debt in Restrepo, Camp Victory, Afghanistan, and Armadillo -- Douglas A. Cunningham ; The Veterans' Tale: Causes and Consequences -- Pat C. Hoy II ; From Brooke's "The Soldier" to Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est": The Demise of "Beautiful Death" in the New Poetics of World War I -- Tom McGuire ; Strangers in Strange Lands: Distorted Landscape in the Modern American Military Memoir -- John Nelson ; The Captivity Narrative: An American Genre -- Robert C. Doyle ; War and Witnessing -- Elisabeth Piedmont-Marton ; Native American Military Involvement in (De)Colonial Contexts -- Lindsay Claire Smith ; "Stubborn Experiments": Bearing Witness in Holocaust Literature -- Dorian Stuber / RESOURCES: Additional Works on War ; Bibliography ; About the Editor ; Contributors.