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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Burns, Tom
• Burns, Tom,

Titel

War and literature : looking back on 20th century armed conflicts

Auflage

1st ed

Ort / Verlag

Stuttgart : Ibidem Verlag,

Erscheinungsjahr

[2014]

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Introduction to Revisiting Twentieth Century Wars -- Hunters turned into Prey: Predation in Twentieth Century War Literature -- Through an Enemy Land: On Space and (In)visibility in Euclides da Cunha's Os sertões -- War Imagery: On the First Edition of Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel -- La Gran Guerra Europea: Germanophobia and the Horrors of War in the Novels of Blasco Ibañez and their Film Adaptations -- The American Narrative of the Second World War -- Guilt in Echolot by Walter Kempowski -- Towards a Definition of a War Orphan Literature -- Dead on a High Hill: Poetry from the Korean War -- Tim O'Brien Recounts Traumatic Memories of American Vietnam Combatants -- Collective Traumas and Common Memories: the Colonial War of Portugal in Africa and European Violence of the Twentieth Century -- The Dark Song of the Night of War. António Lobo Antunes' Os Cus de Judas -- Identity and Otherness in Balkan Films about the War in ex-Yugoslavia -- Struggle for Authenticity: Autobiographical Accounts and Non-Fiction Books on the War in Afghanistan.
• Description based on print version record.