The term "friendly fire" was coined in the 1970s but the theme appears in literature from ancient times to the present. It begins the narrative in Aeschylus's Persians and Larry Heinemann's Paco's Story. It marks the turning point in Homer's Iliad, Virgil's Aeneid, the Chanson de Roland, Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage and Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato. It is the subject of transformative disclosure in Jaan Kross's Czar's Madman, Ron Kovic's Born on the Fourth of July, O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods and...
The term "friendly fire" was coined in the 1970s but the theme appears in literature from ancient times to the present. It begins the narrative in Aes...
""Medievalism"" in this study includes contemporary fiction set in the Middle Ages, and medieval-modern hybrids in which a modern story incorporates medieval elements. Anderson examines the role of storytelling options and rhetorical tropes in over sixty fictions, by more than forty authors, in five languages on four continents.
""Medievalism"" in this study includes contemporary fiction set in the Middle Ages, and medieval-modern hybrids in which a modern story incorporates m...
