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The Literature of War: Studies in Heroic Virtue

The Literature of War: Studies in Heroic Virtue

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0333441613
ISBN13: 9780333441619
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jan 1 1989
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition. The author argues that the theoretical foundations of these assumptions are inadequate and do not fit the literary facts.

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