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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  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
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It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition.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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