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The Mystery of Courage.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2002Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (361 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674041059
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Mystery of CourageDDC classification:
  • 179/.6
LOC classification:
  • BF575
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: The Good Coward -- 2. Aristodemus, or Cowardice Redeemed -- 3. Tim O'Brien and Laches -- 4. Courageous Disposition -- 5. Courage and Scarcity -- 6. "I Have a Wife and Pigs" -- 7. Shoot the Stragglers and the Problem of Retreat -- 8. Offense, Defense, and Rescue -- 9. Man the Chicken -- 10. Praised Be Rashness -- 11. Stupidity, Skill, and Shame -- 12. The Shape and Style of Courage -- 13. The Emotional Terrain: Fear, Hope, Despair -- 14. The Emotional Terrain: Disgust, Anger, Relief -- 15. Courage and Chastity -- 16. Moral Courage and Civility -- 17. Fixing to Die: A Valediction -- 18. Concluding Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Miller culls sources as varied as soldiers' memoirs, heroic and romantic literature, and philosophical discussions to get to the heart of courage--and to expose its role in generating the central anxieties of masculinity and manhood.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: The Good Coward -- 2. Aristodemus, or Cowardice Redeemed -- 3. Tim O'Brien and Laches -- 4. Courageous Disposition -- 5. Courage and Scarcity -- 6. "I Have a Wife and Pigs" -- 7. Shoot the Stragglers and the Problem of Retreat -- 8. Offense, Defense, and Rescue -- 9. Man the Chicken -- 10. Praised Be Rashness -- 11. Stupidity, Skill, and Shame -- 12. The Shape and Style of Courage -- 13. The Emotional Terrain: Fear, Hope, Despair -- 14. The Emotional Terrain: Disgust, Anger, Relief -- 15. Courage and Chastity -- 16. Moral Courage and Civility -- 17. Fixing to Die: A Valediction -- 18. Concluding Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Miller culls sources as varied as soldiers' memoirs, heroic and romantic literature, and philosophical discussions to get to the heart of courage--and to expose its role in generating the central anxieties of masculinity and manhood.

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