The Language of War
Literature and Culture in the U.S. from the Civil War Through World War II
James Dawes(Author)
Harvard University Press
Published on 28. February 2002
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Hardback
318 pages
978-0-674-00648-5 (ISBN)
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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 study range from Louisa May Alcott and William James to William Faulkner, the Geneva Conventions, and contemporary American organizational sociology and language theory. The consensus approach in literary studies since the 1980s has been to treat language as an extension of violence. The idea that there might be an inverse relation between language and violence, says Dawes, has all too rarely influenced the dominant voices in literary studies today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
648 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-00648-5 (9780674006485)
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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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