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Waging War on War : Peacefighting in American Literature.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Global Studies of the United States SeriesPublisher: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (297 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252097850
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Waging War on WarDDC classification:
  • 810.9/358
LOC classification:
  • PS169
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Theory -- 1 Anti-War? Notes on a Ghostly Concept -- 2 Ad Bellum Purificandum: Giving Peace a Fighting Chance -- 3 The Rhetorical Equivalent of War: William James, Kenneth Burke, Stephen Crane -- Part II Readings -- 4 An American Counter-Epic? War and Peace in Joel Barlow's Columbiad -- 5 "Cain's Ring": Moby-Dick and the Narrative of Sacrifice -- 6 "Curious Anesthetics": Ellen La Motte and the Wounds of the Great War -- 7 Waging War on the Sacred: William Faulkner's A Fable -- 8 War, Fiction, and Truth: Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story" -- 9 Beyond the Semantic Netherworld: Literature and the Iraq War -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
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Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Theory -- 1 Anti-War? Notes on a Ghostly Concept -- 2 Ad Bellum Purificandum: Giving Peace a Fighting Chance -- 3 The Rhetorical Equivalent of War: William James, Kenneth Burke, Stephen Crane -- Part II Readings -- 4 An American Counter-Epic? War and Peace in Joel Barlow's Columbiad -- 5 "Cain's Ring": Moby-Dick and the Narrative of Sacrifice -- 6 "Curious Anesthetics": Ellen La Motte and the Wounds of the Great War -- 7 Waging War on the Sacred: William Faulkner's A Fable -- 8 War, Fiction, and Truth: Tim O'Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story" -- 9 Beyond the Semantic Netherworld: Literature and the Iraq War -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

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