Sacrifice and Modern War Writing - Atavisms, Martyrdoms, and Economies of Loss

Zusatztext Sacrifice and Modern War Writing examines an impressive range of writers (over forty in each of its three Parts), and develops its readings with superb use of a wide range of theory from Derrida, Agamben, Butler, Girard, Paul Kahn, Levinas, Nietzsche, and others. This is an outstanding, wide-ranging, utterly original meditation on war as it impacted citizens and culture, dwelling on the victims and martyrs of the sacrifice complex and discovering the lineaments of resistance in what it finds at the heart of the war writers' ethical drive: 'an egalitarian imaginary counter to war's violent sacrifices'. Informationen zum Autor Alex Houen is Professor of Modern Literature and Critical Theory at Cambridge University, and Fellow of Pembroke College. He did a BA (Hons) and then a two-year research MPhil at the University of Sydney before obtaining a PhD at King's College, Cambridge. He taught Modern Literature and American Studies at the University of Sheffield until 2009. Klappentext Sacrifice and Modern War Writing presents the most extensive study to date of twentieth- and twenty-first-century war writing. Alex Houen argues that political, religious, and cultural frames of sacrifice continue to play a significant part in shaping how war's reality is shaped and experienced. Zusammenfassung Sacrifice and Modern War Writing presents the most extensive study to date of twentieth- and twenty-first-century war writing. Alex Houen argues that political, religious, and cultural frames of sacrifice continue to play a significant part in shaping how war's reality is shaped and experienced. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I.: Atavisms: Reprising Ancient Sacrifice in Modern War, from Abraham and Isaac to Moloch Part II: Militant Martyrdoms Part III.: Sacrifice's Gifts and Prices Conclusion

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• Authors: Alex Houen, Alex (Professor of Modern Literature and Cr Houen, Houen Alex
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2024
• EAN: 9780198912286
• ISBN: 978-0-19-891228-6
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; HISTORY / Military / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Warfare & defence, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Warfare and defence, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form