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020 $a9781843843818
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050 00 $aPN56.W3$bW327 2014
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245 00 $aWar and literature /$cedited by Laura Ashe and Ian Patterson for the English Association.
264 1 $aCambridge :$bD.S. Brewer,$c2014.
300 $axii, 254 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aEssays and studies ;$v2014 = volume 67
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tActs of vengeance, acts of love : crusading violence in the twelfth century /$rSusann A. Throop --$tPeril, flight and the Sad Man : medieval theories of the body in battle /$rKatie L. Walter --$t"Is this war?" : British fictions of emergency in the Hot Cold War /$rJames Purdon --$tCrossing the Rubicon : history, authority and civil war in twelfth-century England /$rCatherine A.M. Clarke --$t"The reader myghte lamente" : the sieges of Calais (1346) and Rouen (1418) in chronicle, poem and play /$rJoanna Bellis --$tShakespeare's casus belly, or, Cormorant war, and the wasting of men on Shakespeare's stage /$rAndrew Zurcher --$tUnnavigable kinship in a time of conflict : Loyalist calligraphies, sovereign power and the "muckle honor" of Elizabeth Murray Inman /$rCarol Watts --$tProclaiming the war news : Richard Caton Woodville and Herman Melville /$rTom F. Wright --$tA feeling for numbers : representing the scale of the war dead /$rMary A. Favret --$tThe guilt of the noncombatant and W.H. Auden's "Journal of an airman" /$rRachel Galvin -- Does Tolstoy's War and peace make modern war literature redundant? /$rMark Rawlinson.
520 $a"War was the first subject of literature; at times, war has been its only subject. In this volume, the contributors reflect on the uneasy yet symbiotic relations of war and writing, from medieval to modern literature. War writing emerges in multiple forms, celebratory and critical, awed and disgusted; the rhetoric of inexpressibility fights its own battle with the urgent necessity of representation, record and recognition. This is shown to be true even to the present day: whether mimetic or metaphorical, literature that concerns itself overtly or covertly with the real pressures of war continues to speak to issues of pressing significance, and to provide some clues to the intricate entwinement of war with contemporary life. Particular topics addressed include writings of and about the Crusades and battles during the Hundred Years War; Shakespeare's treatment of war; Auden's 'Journal of an Airman'; and War and Peace."-- Publisher description.
650 0 $aWar in literature.
650 0 $aWar and literature.
700 1 $aAshe, Laura,$eeditor of compilation.
700 1 $aPatterson, Ian,$eeditor of compilation.
830 0 $aEssays and studies (London, England : 1950) ;$vv. 67.