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Men at War - What Fiction Tells Us About Conflict, from the Iliad to Catch-22 (Hardcover)
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Men at War - What Fiction Tells Us About Conflict, from the Iliad to Catch-22 (Hardcover)
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Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has
introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters.
In Men at War Christopher Coker discusses some of the most famous
of these fictional creations and their impact on our understanding
of war and masculinity. Grouped into five archetypes - warriors,
heroes, villains, survivors and victims - these characters range
across 3000 years of history, through epic poems, the modern novel
and one of the twentieth cen- tury's most famous film scripts.
Great authors like Homer and Tolstoy show us aspects of reality
invisible except through a literary lens, while fictional
characters such as Achilles and Falstaff, Robert Jordan and Jack
Aubrey, are not just larger than life; they are life's largeness -
and this is why we seek them out. Although the Greeks knew that the
lovers, wives and mothers of soldiers are the chief victims of
battle, for the combatants, war is a masculine pursuit. Each of
Coker's chapters explores what fiction tells us about war's appeal
to young men and the way it makes - and breaks - them.The
existential appeal of war too is perhaps best conveyed in fictional
accounts, and these too are scrutinised by the author.
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