Andrew Rutherford

The Literature of War (eBook, PDF)

Studies in Heroic Virtue

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It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition.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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1989
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781349196593
• Artikelnr.: 45968893

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.