Lawrence A. Tritle

From Melos to My Lai (eBook, PDF)

A Study in Violence, Culture and Social Survival

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

From Melos to My Lai presents an erudite, provocative and moving analysis of the accounts of violence in the literature and history of ancient Greece and in the film literature and veterans' accounts of the Vietnam War. This comparative investigation examines the nature of violence, its impact on society and culture, especially as reflected from th

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134603657
• Artikelnr.: 42982207

Autorenporträt

Lawrence A. Tritle

Inhaltsangabe

1. A Twentieth Century American Odyssey 2. Listening to Theristes 3.
Achilles and the Heroic Ideal 4. Clearchus' Story: The Heroic Ideal
Transformed 5. Penelope and Waiting Wives and Lovers 6. War, Violence, and
the 'Other' 7. The Historiography and Language of Violence 8. Rhetoric,
Remembrance and Memory 9. The Visibly Dead: Monuments and Their Meaning 10.
The Unanchored Dead: Mental Cases and Walking Wounded