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The Language of War - Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II (Paperback, Revised)
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From the Book During war language is censored, encrypted, and
euphemized; imperatives replace dialogue, and nations communicate
their intentions most dramatically through the use of injury rather
than symbol; talks are broken off, individuals are reduced to
silence by traumatic experience, and witnesses are exterminated.
War's violence shrinks langauge and damages communication; this
diminishment of discourse (arguments, pleas, justifications,
appeals for sympathy) in turn enables more violence. In the
following chapters three primary features in the development of
modern violence are examined: first, the multiplication of violence
in the Civil War, with its unthinkable body-counts and its
anguished deabte over the moral status of both the individual
soldier and the language used to commemorate him; second, the
industrialization of violence in World War I, with its startling
innovations in weapons technology and its subsequent
destabilization of basic moral categories like caring and harming,
intimacy and injury; and third, the rationalized organization of
violence in World War II, which saw language shattered in the
centralizing bureaucracies of the military-industrial complex and
reinvented in the rise of international human rights law. Drawing
upon legal theory, moral philosophy, and organizational sociology,
this book analyzes how the pressures of violence in each historical
moment gave rise to important changes in aesthetic forms and
cultural discourses, and develops a theory of force and discourse
that links specialized modes of verbalization to the deceleration
of violence.
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