Men at War: What Fiction Tells Us about Conflict, from the Iliad to Catch-22 9780199382972

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Автор: Coker Christopher
Название: Men at War: What Fiction Tells Us about Conflict, from the Iliad to Catch-22
ISBN: 9780199382972
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0199382972
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Вес: 0.52 кг.
Дата издания: 01.06.2014
Язык: English
Размер: 218 x 140 x 25
Ссылка на Издательство: Link
Поставляется из: США
Описание: 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 centurys 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 lifes 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 Cokers chapters explores what fiction tells us about wars 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 scrutinized by the author.

Men at War: What Fiction Tells Us about Conflict, from the Iliad to Catch-22, Coker Christopher