| Description |
x, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents |
Stories of war and peace: sacred, secular, and holy / Darrell J. Fasching -- The chalice and the blade: engendering war in classical literature / Georgia E. Brown -- Violence, terrorism, and war in Marlowe's Tamburlaine plays / Robert A. Logan -- Henry V at war: Christian king of model Machiavel / Sara Munson Deats -- "Born for opposition": Lord Byron's irresistible tug-of-war / Maryhelen C. Harmon -- "Civilized barbarity": Melville and the dark paradoxes of waging modern war / R. Bruce Bickley -- Editha's war: "how glorious!" / Rosalie Murphy Baum -- Make war on war: a Shavian conundrum / Lagretta Tallent Lenker -- Words, war, and peace: the nature of Orwell's pacifism / William T. Ross -- Understanding Hemingway's multiple voices of war: a rhetorical study / James H. Meredith -- "Seule la culture desintereressee": Virginia Woolf, gender, and culture in time of war / Merry M. Pawlowski -- Propaganda, militarism, and the home front in Helen Zenna Smith's Not so quiet ... step daughters of war / Celia M. Kingsbury -- Who's speaking? what are they saying? women, words, and war / Ellen B. Kimmel -- War of words: war "with" and "against" in African American literature / Charles J. Heglar. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-333) and index. |
| Subject |
War in literature.
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Heroes in literature.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Deats, Sara Munson.
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Lenker, Lagretta Tallent.
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Perry, Merry G.
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| ISBN |
0739105795 (alk. paper) |
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9780739105795 (alk. paper) |
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