The Language of War
Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War Through World War II
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2002
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-00648-5 (ISBN)
Harvard University Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-00648-5 (ISBN)
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This work examines the relationship between language and violence, focusing on American literature from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. The study focuses on authors and texts that range from Louisa May Alcott and William James to William Faulkner and the Geneva Conventions.
"The Language of War" examines the relationship between language and violence, focusing on American literature from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. James Dawes proceeds by developing two primary questions: How does the strategic violence of war affect literary, legal, and philosophical representations? And, in turn, how do such representations affect the reception and initiation of violence itself? Authors and texts of central importance in this study range from Louisa May Alcott and William James to William Faulkner, the Geneva Conventions, and contemporary American organizational sociology and language theory. The consensus approach in literary studies since the 1980s has been to treat language as an extension of violence. The idea that there might be an inverse relation between language and violence, says Dawes, has all too rarely influenced the dominant voices in literary studies today.
"The Language of War" examines the relationship between language and violence, focusing on American literature from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. James Dawes proceeds by developing two primary questions: How does the strategic violence of war affect literary, legal, and philosophical representations? And, in turn, how do such representations affect the reception and initiation of violence itself? Authors and texts of central importance in this study range from Louisa May Alcott and William James to William Faulkner, the Geneva Conventions, and contemporary American organizational sociology and language theory. The consensus approach in literary studies since the 1980s has been to treat language as an extension of violence. The idea that there might be an inverse relation between language and violence, says Dawes, has all too rarely influenced the dominant voices in literary studies today.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.2.2002 |
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Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 163 x 242 mm |
Gewicht | 648 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-674-00648-8 / 0674006488 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-00648-5 / 9780674006485 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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