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Conflict, Nationhood and Corporeality in Modern Literature: Bodies-at-War
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Hardcover. This collection examines ways in which modern literature responds to the body-at-war, examining the effects of violent conflict on the body in its literal and representative forms. Spanning literature from World War I to the present day, it includes essays on pacifist theatre, torture, fascist fantasies, and uniforms and masculinity. Editor(s): Rau, Petra. Num Pages: 217 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364.
This collection examines ways in which modern literature responds to the body-at-war, examining the effects of violent conflict on the body in its literal and representative forms. Spanning literature from World War I to the present day, it includes essays on pacifist theatre, torture, fascist fantasies, and uniforms and masculinity.
This collection examines ways in which modern literature responds to the body-at-war, examining the effects of violent conflict on the body in its literal and representative forms. Spanning literature from World War I to the present day, it includes essays on pacifist theatre, torture, fascist fantasies, and uniforms and masculinity.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
207
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230231528
SKU
V9780230231528
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99-15
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CHRISTINE BERBERICH Senior Lecturer in 19th and 20th-century English and European Literature, University of Portsmouth, UK MARINA MACKAY Washington University, St. Louis, USA EUGENE MCNULTY Lecturer in English, St Patrick's College, Dublin, Republic of Ireland GILL PLAIN Professor of English Literature and Popular Culture, University of St Andrews, UK PATRICIA PULHAM Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Portsmouth, UK ... Read more
Reviews for Conflict, Nationhood and Corporeality in Modern Literature: Bodies-at-War
'The essays collected by Rau offer a broad and provocative analysis of the "vanishing body", ranging across the twentieth-century in term os of literature and history...This is a valuable collection of essays which builds on the Foucauldian-inspired work associated with the body as a historically shifting construct and connects it to a series of hithero minor texts in the literature ... Read more