Kate McLoughlin (University of Oxford)

Veteran Poetics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Life times
2. Strangers
3. Problem-solving
4. Telling tales
5. The end of the story.