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  title info:
    title: Men at war
    sub title: what fiction tells us about conflict, from the Iliad to catch-22
  name:
    name part: Coker, Christopher.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 325 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters. In Men at War, Christopher Coker discusses some of the most famous of these fictional creations and their impact on our understanding of war and masculinity. Grouped into five archetypes-warriors, heroes, villains, survivors and victims-these characters range across 3000 years of history, through epic poems, the modern novel and one of the twentieth century's most famous film scripts. Great authors like Homer and Tolstoy show us aspects of reality invisible except through a literary lens, while fictional characters such as Achilles and Falstaff, Robert Jordan and Jack Aubrey, are not just larger than life. They are life's largeness, and this is why we seek them out. Although the Greeks knew that the lovers, wives and mothers of soldiers are the chief victims of battle, for the combatants, war is a masculine pursuit. Each of Coker's chapters explores what fiction tells us about war's appeal to young men and the way it makes, and breaks, them. The existential appeal of war too is perhaps best conveyed in fictional accounts, and these too are scrutinized by the author.
  table of contents: An absolute truth -- Warriors. Achilles ; Aeneas ; Hadji Murat ; "Lucky Jack" Aubrey ; Vollmer -- Heroes. Henry Fleming ; Brigadier Gerard ; Bourne ; Robert Jordan ; Malaparte -- Villains. Colonel Feraud ; Colonel Moredock ; General Cummings ; Dr. Strangelove ; Judge Holden -- Survivors. Falstaff ; Svejk ; Yossarian ; Kien ; Flashman -- Victims. Philoctetes ; Colonel Chabert ; Paul Baumer ; Guy Crouchback ; Billy Pilgrim -- War is kind: a final summing up.
  note: Christopher Coker.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-311) and index.
  subject:
    topic: War and literature
  subject:
    topic: Masculinity in literature
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies
  classification: PN56.W3 C64 2014
  classification: 809/.93358
  identifier: 9780199382972 (hardback)
  identifier: 0199382972 (hardback)
  identifier: 2014004871
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 140319
    record change date: 20151206105253.0
    record identifier: in00003470276