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War and Words - Representations of Military Conflict in Literature and the Media (Hardcover, Unabridged edition): Wojciech... War and Words - Representations of Military Conflict in Literature and the Media (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
Wojciech Drag, Jakub Krogulec, Mateusz Marecki
R1,566 Discovery Miles 15 660 Out of stock

Despite the vast body of texts inspired by warfare - from The Iliad to Maus - war writing is perpetually haunted by the notions of unrepresentability and inadequacy. War and Words examines the methods, conventions and pitfalls of constructing verbal accounts of military conflict in literature and the media. This multifocal study draws on a wide array of theoretical perspectives, including feminism, posthumanism, masculinity, trauma, spatiality and media studies, and brings together such diverse material as canonical literature, war veterans' testimonies, imaginative fiction, computer games, English curricula, and Al-Qaeda's propaganda pieces. In five consecutive sections - "Spreading War Propaganda", "Reconstructing War Spaces", "Envisioning War", "Gendering War", and "Teaching War" - the contributors consider war in its manifold aspects: as an ideological tool used for propaganda purposes, as a spatial reconstruction performed for the critical reassessment of past conflicts, as a projection (or extrapolation) of possible future conflicts and their social repercussions, as a political statement to deconstruct the oppressive nature of violence, and, finally, as a didactic tool to foster empathy. This collection will appeal primarily to academics specialising in English and American literature, but also to those researching media, gender, and game studies.

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