Waging War on War
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-03975-1 (ISBN)
Giorgio Mariani rigorously engages with the essential question of what makes a text explicitly anti-war. Ranging from Emerson and Joel Barlow to Maxine Hong Kingston and Tim O'Brien, Waging War on War explores why sustained attempts at identifying the anti-war text's formal and philosophical features seem to always end at an impasse. Mariani moves a step beyond to construct a theoretical model that invites new inquiries into America's nonviolent, nonconformist tradition even as it challenges the ways we study U.S. warmaking and the cultural reactions to it. In the process, he shows how the ideal of nonviolence and a dislike of war have been significant, if nonhegemonic, features of American culture since the nation's early days.
Ambitious and nuanced, Waging War on War at last defines anti-war literature while exploring the genre's role in an assertive peacefighting project that offered--and still offers--alternatives to violence.
Giorgio Mariani is a professor of American literature at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is the author of Spectacular Narratives: Representations of Class and War in Stephen Crane and American Popular Literature of the 1890s.
CoverTitleContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. Theory1. Anti-War? Notes on a Ghostly Concept2. Ad Bellum Purificandum: Giving Peace a Fighting Chance3. The Rhetorical Equivalent of War: William James, Kenneth Burke, Stephen CranePart II. Readings4. An American Counter-Epic? War and Peace in Joel Barlow’s Columbiad5. “Cain’s Ring”: Moby-Dick and the Narrative of Sacrifice6. “Curious Anesthetics”: Ellen La Motte and the Wounds of the Great War7. Waging War on the Sacred: William Faulkner’s A Fable8. War, Fiction, and Truth: Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story”9. Beyond the Semantic Netherworld: Literature and the Iraq WarNotesWorks CitedIndex
Zusatzinfo | 1 black and white photograph |
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Verlagsort | Baltimore |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-252-03975-0 / 0252039750 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-252-03975-1 / 9780252039751 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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