Kate McLoughlin (University of Oxford)

Gebundenes Buch

Veteran Poetics

Beschreibung

Veteran Poetics is the first full-length study of the war veteran in literature. It shows how authors from Wordsworth to J. K. Rowling have deployed veterans to explore ideas relating to being, knowing and storytelling. It will expand understanding of British literature and its intellectual contexts from the 1790s onwards.

Autor

Kate McLoughlin is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011) (a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to War Writing (2009).  She is also the co-founding director of WAR-Net. In 2016, she gave the Remembrance Day address in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge; she has also given lectures at the National Army Museum and the National Memorial Arboretum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781107195936
• ISBN-10: 1107195934
• Artikelnr.: 50198787