War and Literature: Commiserating with the Enemy

• Autore: McCoppin Rachel
• Pubblicazione: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (145 p.)
• Soggetto non controllato: 1916 Easter Rising; A Long Long Way; Afghanistan; Andromache; Anne Devlin; Briseis; captive-women; cognitive dissonance; colonialism; commiseration; commiseration in arjun; contemporary Irish fiction; distance; Edna O'Brien; Emilio Lussu; empathy; encounters; enemies; enemyship; English Civil War; fantasy; fiction; First World War; Ford Madox Ford; frontier literature; funeral songs; George Armstrong Custer; Herbert Read; Hmong; Homer; ideology; Indian Wars; interpreter; Ireland; Irish literature; Islamophobia; Italian Front; J. R. R. Tolkien; Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya; Keith Douglas; krishan's rhetoric; Lucy Hutchinson; Luke Mogelson; Margaret Cavendish; masculinity; memoir; narrative; Northern Ireland; oral tradition; political conflict; Randall Jarrell; reconciliation; rhetoric; rhetoric in the mahabharat; Robert Graves; Robert Service; Sebastian Barry; Second World War; settler-colonialism; Siegfried Sassoon; soldiers; south-asian rhetoric; terrorism; trench warfare; Vietnam/Vietnamese; vyas' rhetoric; war; war literature; war narratives; war poetry; war writing; Western American literature; Wilfred Owen; Will Mackin; World War I; World War One
• Sommario/riassunto: This Special Issue focuses specifically on the topic of commiseration with the "enemy" within war literature. The articles included in this Special Issue show authors and/or literary characters attempting to understand the motives, beliefs, and cultural values of those who have been defined by their nations as their enemies. This process of attempting to understand the orientation of defined "enemies" often shows that the soldier has begun a process of reflection about why he or she is part of the war experience. The texts included in this issue also show how political authorities often resort to propaganda and myth-making tactics that are meant to convince soldiers that they are fighting opponents who are evil, sub-human, etc., and are therefore their direct enemies. Literary texts that show an author and/or literary character trying to reflect against state-supported definitions of good/evil, right/wrong, and ally/enemy often present an opportunity to reevaluate the purposes of war and one's moral responsibility during wartime.
• Altri titoli varianti: War and Literature
• Titolo autorizzato: War and Literature: Commiserating with the Enemy
• ISBN: 3-03921-911-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910372781703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II