The literature of war : studies in heroic virtue
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The literature of war : studies in heroic virtue
Macmillan, 1989
2nd (rev.) ed
- : pbk
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Previous ed.: 1978
Bibliography: p. 186-192
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition.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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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