Andrew Rutherford

The Literature of War

Studies in Heroic Virtue

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition.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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-44161-9
• 1989.
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780333441619
• ISBN-10: 0333441613
• Artikelnr.: 44409336

Inhaltsangabe

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.