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Publication

2002 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

77,000 words, Guess

Page Count

308 pages

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Classifications

  • DDC810.9/358
  • LCCPS228.W37 D38 2002
  • LCCPS228.W37D38 2002

Description

"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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  • The language of war: literature and culture in the U.S. from the Civil War through World War IIHarvard University Press2002-01-01

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