The Routledge introduction to American war litarature /
War and violence have arguably been some of the strongest influences on literature, but the relation is complex. More than just a subject for storytelling, war tends to reshape literature and culture. Modern war literature necessarily engages with national ideologies, and this volume looks at the sp...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Series: | Routledge introductions to American literature.
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| Summary: | War and violence have arguably been some of the strongest influences on literature, but the relation is complex. More than just a subject for storytelling, war tends to reshape literature and culture. Modern war literature necessarily engages with national ideologies, and this volume looks at the specificity of how American literature deals with the emotional, intellectual, social, political and economic contradictions that evolve into and out of war. Raising questions about how American ideals of independence and gender affect representations of war while also considering how specifically American experiences of race and class interweave with representations of combat, this book is a rich and coherent introduction to these texts and critical debates. |
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| Physical Description: | 188 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [172]-183) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1138917575 9781138917576 |