The Spoils of War: The Bright and Bitter Fruits of Human Conflict

ISBN-13: 9780820433875 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 223 str.

Juergen Kleist;Bruce A Butterfield

Opis

"The Spoils of War" includes essays by fourteen scholars in a variety of disciplines who consider both the destructive and constructive forces of war from the days of the Greeks and Trojans to medieval times, from the American Civil War through World Wars I and II, to the Cold War and Vietnam, and even the recent uprisings in Chiapas.

Spis treści

Contents: Thomas J. Morrissey: The Spoils of War or a Good War Spoiled? Troy from Homer to Euripides - Lauren Kiefer: «A Good War Spoiled,» Part Two: Troy in the Late Middle Ages - Dennis Costanzo: Premonitions of Catastrophe: German Artists and the Great War - Edward Lundergan: The Topography of Golgotha: An Implied Narrative Structure in Britten's War Requiem - James E. Devlin: «War, Rubble, and Homecoming»: Anti-War Short Stories of Heinrich Böll - Andrew Howard: The Implications of Wartime Corporatism for Working Class Internationalism: The World War II Experience of the Congress of Industrial Organizations - Wolfgang Mieder: Raising the Iron Curtain: Proverbs and Political Rhetoric of the Cold War - Daniel J. Gordon: Imagery in Karel Husa's Music for Prague 1968 - Annette Teffeteller: The Glory Myth - Margaret R. LaWare: Forgotten Veterans Reclaim Their Voices: Gender and Identity in the Narrative of Women Vietnam Veterans - Nicholas J. Mammano: Plutonium Dreaming - Anita Rapone and Charles R. Simpson: Rebellion in Chiapas: Ecological Spaces and Cultural Systems in Collision - John L. Yardan: War and the Problem of God and Evil.

O autorze

The Editors: Jürgen Kleist is the author of Das Dilemma der Kunst (Peter Lang, 1989), the novella Nietzsche in Turin (1992), and several short stories that have appeared in anthologies. He holds the Ph.D. in German literature from the University of California, San Diego, and currently is an associate professor of German at SUNY Plattsburgh.
Bruce A. Butterfield is a professor of English at SUNY Plattsburgh, where he teaches courses in twentieth-century fiction and pursues research and writing on contemporary Canadian literature. He is also book-review editor of the journal The American Review of Canadian Studies.
Both are editors of Mythology. From Ancient to Post-Modern (Peter Lang, 1992); Breakdowns: The Destiny of the Twentieth Century (Peter Lang, 1994); Re-naming the Landscape (Peter Lang, 1994); and Fin de Siècle: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Comparisons and Perspectives (Peter Lang, 1996).