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  1. Men at war
    what fiction tells us about conflict, from the Iliad to Catch-22
    Author: Coker, Christopher
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

    "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... more

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    "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 century's 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 life's 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 Coker's chapters explores what fiction tells us about war's 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"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780190237882; 0190237880
    Subjects: War and literature; Masculinity in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; Books & Reading; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Men's Studies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Literary; Masculinity in literature; War and literature
    Scope: Online Ressource (ix, 325 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-311) and index. - Print version record
  2. Men at war
    what fiction tells us about conflict, from the Iliad to catch-22
    Author: Coker, Christopher
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York, New York

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    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780190237882
    Subjects: War and literature; Masculinity in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (336 pages)
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    Description based on print version record