Ashe / Patterson War and Literature

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-78204-314-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 67, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Essays and Studies

Considerations of writing about war, in war, because of war, and against war, in a wide range of texts from the middle ages onwards.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ashe, Laura

Patterson, Ian

Weitere Mitwirkende

Zurcher, Andrew

Watts, Carol

Clarke, Catherine A M

Purdon, James

Bellis, Joanna

Walter, Katie Louise

Rawlinson, Mark

Favret, Mary A.

Galvin, Rachel

Throop, Susanna A.

Wright, Tom F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acts of Vengeance, Acts of Love: Crusading Violence in the Twelfth Century - Susanna A. Throop
Peril, Flight and the Sad Man: Medieval Theories of the Body in Battle - Katie Louise Walter
'Is This War?': British Fictions of Emergency in the Hot Cold War - James Purdon
Crossing the Rubicon: History, Authority and Civil War in Twelfth-Century England - Catherine A M Clarke
'The Reader myghte lamente': the sieges of Calais (1346) and Rouen (1418) in chronicle, poem and play - Joanna Bellis
Shakespeare's Casus Belly. - Andrew Zurcher
Unnavigable Kinship in a Time of Conflict: Loyalist Calligraphies, Sovereign Power and the 'Muckle Honor' of Elizabeth Murray Inman - Carol Watts
Proclaiming the War News: Richard Caton Woodville and Herman Melville - Tom F. Wright
A Feeling for Numbers: Representing the Scale of the War Dead - Mary A. Favret
The Guilt of the Noncombatant and W. H. Auden's 'Journal of an Airman' - Rachel Galvin
Does Tolstoy's War and Peace make modern war literature redundant? - Mark Rawlinson

Über Autor(innen)

Ashe Laura:
LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.