The poetics of otherness: war, trauma, and literature

"This book examines issues of history in literature and culture, beginning with issues of public and private, then proceeding to a sense of cultural exchange in travel, a consideration of history in historiography and literature, and representations of Natives in the First World War, an analysi...

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Main Author: Hart, Jonathan Locke 1956- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York [u.a.] Palgrave Macmillan 2015
Edition:1. publ., 1. ed.
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Summary:"This book examines issues of history in literature and culture, beginning with issues of public and private, then proceeding to a sense of cultural exchange in travel, a consideration of history in historiography and literature, and representations of Natives in the First World War, an analysis of education, particularly in the 1960s, an examination of canon formation during the 1980s, and a discussion of how theoretical readings of literature can provide another dimension in interpretation"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction 2. Trauma 3. The Literary and the Other 4. Trauma in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries5. Travel, Alterity, and Culture 6. Violence, War, and Poetry 7. Representing the Great War8. Poetry and the First World War 9. Poetry and the Second World War 10. Voices from the Holocaust 11. Conclusion
Physical Description:XV, 263 S.
ISBN:9781137482631

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