Veteran Poetics - British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790-2015

Informationen zum Autor Kate McLoughlin is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011) (a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to War Writing (2009).  She is also the co-founding director of WAR-Net. In 2016, she gave the Remembrance Day address in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge; she has also given lectures at the National Army Museum and the National Memorial Arboretum. Klappentext Illustrates how war veterans have been used in British literature since the 1790s to explore being, knowing and storytelling.Veteran Poetics is the first full-length study of the war veteran in literature. It shows how authors from Wordsworth to J. K. Rowling have deployed veterans to explore ideas relating to being, knowing and storytelling. It will expand understanding of British literature and its intellectual contexts from the 1790s onwards. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Life times; 2. Strangers; 3. Problem-solving; 4. Telling tales; 5. The end of the story.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Mcloughlin, Kate (University of Oxford) Mcloughlin, McLoughlin Kate
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781107195936
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19593-6
• No. of pages: 330
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; military history, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000