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The language of war

literature and culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II

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An edition of The language of war (2002)

The language of war

literature and culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War II

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"The Language of War examines the relationship between language and violence, focusing on American literature from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. James Dawes proceeds by developing two primary questions: How does the strategic violence of war affect literary, legal, and philosophical representations? And, in turn, how do such representations affect the reception and initiation of violence itself?

Authors and texts of central importance in this far-reaching study range from Louisa May Alcott and William James to William Faulkner, the Geneva Conventions, and contemporary American organizational sociology and language theory."--BOOK JACKET.

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308

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American literature English language Historiography History History and criticism Language and culture Literature and the war Military History Social aspects of English language United States Civil War, 1861-1865 Violence Violence in literature War in literature World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1939-1945 American literature, history and criticism, 20th century American literature, history and criticism, 19th century English language, social aspects World war, 1914-1918, literature and the war World war, 1939-1945, literature and the war United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, literature and the war Social aspects Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer

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19th century 20th century Civil War, 1861-1865
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2002, Harvard University Press
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction. Language and Violence:
The Civil War and Literary and Cultural Theory I
I Counting on the Battlefield:
Literature and Philosophy after the Civil War 24
2 Care and Creation:
The Anglo-American Moderists 69
3 Freedom, Luck, and Catastrophe:
Ernest Hemingway, John Dewey, and Immanuel Kant 107
4 Trauma and the Structure of Social Norms:
Literature and Theory between the Wars 131
SLanguage, Violence, and Bureaucracy: William Faulkner,
Joseph Heller, and Organizational Sociology 157
6 Total War, Anomie, and Human Rights Law 192
Notes 221
Index 301.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cambridge, Mass

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Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/358
Library of Congress
PS228.W37 D38 2002, PS228.W37D38 2002

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Pagination
viii, 308 p. ;
Number of pages
308

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OL3950524M
ISBN 10
0674006488
LCCN
2001043085
OCLC/WorldCat
47667021
LibraryThing
1651144
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4898382

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OL6213469W

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