The Literature of War: Five Studies in Heroic VirtueBarnes & Noble Books, 1978 - 176 páginas It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition. The author argues that the theoretical foundations of these assumptions are inadequate and do not fit the literary facts. |
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Kipling and Frontier War II | 11 |
Lawrence of Arabia | 38 |
Literature of the Western | 64 |
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