War and Literature (Essays and Studies, 67) ISBN-13: 9781843843818

ISBN-13: 9781843843818

Binding: Hardcover

Author: Ashe, Laura

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

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 intricateentwinement of war with contemporary life. Particular topics addressed include writings of and about the Crusades and battles during the Hundred Years War; Shakespeares “Casus Belly”; Audens “Journal of an Airman”; and War and Peace.

Ian Patterson is a poet, critic and translator. He teaches English at Queens College, Cambridge. Laura Ashe is Associate Professor of English and a Tutorial Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.

Contributors: Joanna Bellis, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Mary A. Favret, Rachel Galvin, James Purdon, Mark Rawlinson, Susanna A. Throop, Katie L. Walter, Carol Watts, Tom F. Wright, Andrew Zurcher.

Release Date: 17-07-2014

Package Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches

Languages: English

Part Number: 5 black & white illustrations

Edition: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 272