War and Literary Studies

ISBN-13: 9781316511480 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 350 str.

Anders Engberg-Pedersen (University of Southern Denmark); Sydney) Neil Ramsey (University of New South Wales

Opis

War and Literary Studies poses two main questions: First, how has war shaped the field of literary studies? And second, when scholars today study the literature of war what are the key concepts in play? Seeking to complement the extant scholarship, this volume adopts a wider and more systematic approach as it directs our attention to the relation between warfare and literary studies as a field of knowledge. What are the key characteristics of the language of war? Of gender in war? Which questions are central to the way we engage with war and trauma or war and sensation? In which ways were prominent 20th century theories such as critical theory, French postwar theory, postcolonial theory shaped by war? How might emergent concepts such as 'revolution,' 'the anthropocene' or 'capitalism' inflect the study of war and literature?

Spis treści

Part I. Origins and Theories: 1. War and classical Athens Edith Foster; 2. War and Chinese culture Huiwen Helen Zhang and Haun Saussy; 3. War and romantic thought Wolf Kittler; 4. War and critical theory Max Pensky; 5. War and French theory Anders Engberg-Pedersen; 6. War and media studies Geoffrey Winthrop-Young; 7. War and postcolonial thought Santanu Das; Part II. Foundational Concepts: 8. War and language Nil Santiáñez; 9. War and modernist aesthetics Paul Sheehan; 10. War and historicity Elizabeth Krimmer; 11. War and sensation Sarah Cole; 12. War and civilians Mark Rawlinson; 13. War and trauma Neil Ramsey and Anders Engberg-Pedersen; 14. War and religion Peter Madsen; 15. War and gender Margot Norris; Part III. Emerging Concepts: 16. War and drones Debjani Ganguly; 17. War and humanitarianism Eleni Coundouriotis; 18. War and capitalism Neil Ramsey; 19. War and revolution Jan Mieszkowski; 20. War and biopolitics Arne de Boever; 21. War and nuclear criticism Adam Piette; 22. War and the personality of power Brian Massumi.