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Author:

Santiáñez-Tió, Nil, author.

Title:

The literature of absolute war : transnationalism and World War II / Nil Santiáñez (Saint Louis University).

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

viii, 273 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

1939-1945
War in literature.
Total war.
World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.
Literature and transnationalism.
Total war.
Literature and transnationalism.
War and literature.
War in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-268) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- The horror -- Terror -- Specters -- Coda: Remains.

Summary:

"This book addresses a set of theoretical, historical, and literary questions, shedding new light on the nature of absolute war, the literature on the world war of 1939-45, and modern war writing in general. It determines the main features of the language of absolute war, how it gravitates around fundamental semantic clusters. The Literature of Absolute War studies the variegated responses given by literary authors to the extreme and seemingly unsolvable challenges posed by absolute war to epistemology, ethics, and language. It delves into the different poetics that articulate the writing on absolute war, placing special emphasis on four literary practices: traditional realism, traumatic realism, the fantastic, and catastrophic modernism."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1108817033
9781108817035
1108495125
9781108495127

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1125018651

LCCN:

2019052907

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)