E-Book, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Web PDF
Rutherford The Literature of War
Erscheinungsjahr 1989
ISBN: 978-1-349-19659-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Studies in Heroic Virtue
E-Book, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Web PDF
Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
ISBN: 978-1-349-19659-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
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It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition. The author argues that the theoretical foundations of these assumptions are inadequate and do not fit the literary facts.
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The subaltern as hero - Kipling and frontier war; the intellectual as hero - Lawrence of Arabia; the common man as hero - literature of the Western Front; the Christian as hero - Waugh's "Sword of Honour"; the spy as hero - Le Carre and the Cold War; Epilogue - on realism and the heroic.




