Veteran Poetics

Veteran Poetics
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Total Pages : 333
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ISBN-10 : 9781107195936
ISBN-13 : 1107195934
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Veteran Poetics by : Catherine Mary McLoughlin

Illustrates how war veterans have been used in British literature since the 1790s to explore being, knowing and storytelling.

Poetics of the First Punic War

Poetics of the First Punic War
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Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9780472132133
ISBN-13 : 047213213X
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Poetics of the First Punic War by : Thomas Biggs

Poetics of the First Punic War investigates the literary afterlives of Rome’s first conflict with Carthage. From its original role in the Middle Republic as the narrative proving ground for epic’s development out of verse historiography, to its striking cultural reuse during the Augustan and Flavian periods, the First Punic War (264–241 BCE) holds an underappreciated place in the history of Latin literature. Because of the serendipitous meeting of historical content and poetic form in the third century BCE, a textualized First Punic War went on to shape the Latin language and its literary genres, the practices and politics of remembering war, popular visions of Rome as a cultural capital, and numerous influential conceptions of Punic North Africa. Poetics of the First Punic War combines innovative theoretical approaches with advances in the philological analysis of Latin literature to reassess the various “texts” of the First Punic War, including those composed by Vergil, Propertius, Horace, and Silius Italicus. This book also contains sustained treatment of Naevius’ fragmentary Bellum Punicum (Punic War) and Livius Andronicus’ Odusia (Odyssey), some of the earliest works of Latin poetry. As the tradition’s primary Roman topic, the First Punic War is forever bound to these poems, which played a decisive role in transmitting an epic view of history.

Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing

Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9781009100441
ISBN-13 : 1009100440
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Romanticism and the Biopolitics of Modern War Writing by : Neil Ramsey

This book illuminates the genesis and development of modern war writing in relation to Romanticism, biopolitics and disciplinary theory.

The Literature of Absolute War

The Literature of Absolute War
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 283
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ISBN-10 : 9781108853361
ISBN-13 : 1108853366
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Literature of Absolute War by : Nil Santiáñez

This book explores for the first time the literature of absolute war in connection to World War II. From a transnational and comparative standpoint, it addresses a set of theoretical, historical, and literary questions, shedding new light on the nature of absolute war, the literature on the world war of 1939–45, and modern war writing in general. It determines the main features of the language of absolute war, and how it gravitates around fundamental semantic clusters, such as the horror, terror, and the specter. The Literature of Absolute War studies the variegated responses given by literary authors to the extreme and seemingly unsolvable challenges posed by absolute war to epistemology, ethics, and language. It also delves into the different poetics that articulate the writing on absolute war, placing special emphasis on four literary practices: traditional realism, traumatic realism, the fantastic, and catastrophic modernism.

Memories of a Lost War

Memories of a Lost War
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Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780198187677
ISBN-13 : 019818767X
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Memories of a Lost War by : Subarno Chattarji

In this unique and significant addition to Vietnam studies, Memories of a Lost War analyzes the poems written by American veterans, protest poets, and Vietnamese, within political, aesthetic, and cultural contexts. Drawing on a wealth of material often published in small presses and journals, the book highlights the horrors of war and the continuing traumas of veterans in post-Vietnam America. In its inclusion of Vietnamese perspectives, the book marks a departure from earlier works that have largely concentrated on Vietnam as a war rather than a country.

Remote Warfare

Remote Warfare
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9781452960982
ISBN-13 : 1452960984
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Remote Warfare by : Rebecca A. Adelman

Considers how people have confronted, challenged, and resisted remote warfare Drone warfare is now a routine, if not predominant, aspect of military engagement. Although this method of delivering violence at a distance has been a part of military arsenals for two decades, scholarly debate on remote warfare writ large has remained stuck in tired debates about practicality, efficacy, and ethics. Remote Warfare broadens the conversation, interrogating the cultural and political dimensions of distant warfare and examining how various stakeholders have responded to the reality of state-sponsored remote violence. The essays here represent a panoply of viewpoints, revealing overlooked histories of remoteness, novel methodologies, and new intellectual challenges. From the story arc of Homeland to redefining the idea of a “warrior,” these thirteen pieces consider the new nature of surveillance, similarities between killing with drones and gaming, literature written by veterans, and much more. Timely and provocative, Remote Warfare makes significant and lasting contributions to our understanding of drones and the cultural forces that shape and sustain them. Contributors: Syed Irfan Ashraf, U of Peshawar, Pakistan; Jens Borrebye Bjering, U of Southern Denmark; Annika Brunck, U of Tübingen; David A. Buchanan, U.S. Air Force Academy; Owen Coggins, Open U; Andreas Immanuel Graae, U of Southern Denmark; Brittany Hirth, Dickinson State U; Tim Jelfs, U of Groningen; Ann-Katrine S. Nielsen, Aarhus U; Nike Nivar Ortiz, U of Southern California; Michael Richardson, U of New South Wales; Kristin Shamas, U of Oklahoma; Sajdeep Soomal; Michael Zeitlin, U of British Columbia.

Poetic Healing

Poetic Healing
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Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9781602359871
ISBN-13 : 1602359873
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Poetic Healing by : Mark E. Huglen

Recounts the poetic healing of a Vietnam veteran with poetry and plays. Describes the five phases of healing through commentary and explores intrapersonal and interpersonal conflict, dialectic, and metaphysics, as well as suicide and anti-relational and relational communication.

A Shadow on Our Hearts

A Shadow on Our Hearts
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Publisher : Culture and Politics in the Company
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1625343019
ISBN-13 : 9781625343017
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis A Shadow on Our Hearts by : Adam Gilbert

The American war in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious events of the twentieth century, and it produced an extraordinary outpouring of poetry. Yet the complex ethical terrain of the conflict is remarkably underexplored, and the prodigious poetic voice of its American participants remains largely unheard. In A Shadow on Our Hearts, Adam Gilbert rectifies these oversights by utilizing the vast body of soldier-poetry to examine the war's core moral issues. The soldier-poets provide important insights into the ethical dimensions of their physical and psychological surroundings before, during, and after the war. They also offer profound perspectives on the relationships between American soldiers and the Vietnamese people. From firsthand experiences, they reflect on what it meant to be witnesses, victims, and perpetrators of the war's violence. And they advance an uncompromising vision of moral responsibility that indicts a range of culprits for the harms caused by the conflict. Gilbert explores the powerful and perceptive work of these soldier-poets through the lens of morality and presents a radically alternative, deeply personal, and ethically penetrating account of the American war in Vietnam.

Prosthetic Agency

Prosthetic Agency
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9781009081610
ISBN-13 : 1009081616
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Prosthetic Agency by : Gill Plain

Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity after World War II examines the social and psychic upheaval of demobilisation. It maps the rapid transition from wartime regimentation to individual responsibility, from intense homosociality to heteronormative expectations, from normativity to disability and from uniformed masculinity to domestic citizenship. This book considers some of the many ways in which popular culture of the time sought to mediate these difficult transitions, exploring films, popular fiction, memoir and biography. In particular, the book explores how technology was imagined as a new space of masculine becoming and how disability was written, represented and assimilated. Through a focus on popular narrative, this book explores the modes of masculinity promoted as ideally suited to national reconstruction and tries to make sense of a culture of rehabilitation that could not name or know itself as such.