The Literature of War: Studies in Heroic Virtue

by Andrew Rutherford

Overview

It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition.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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333441619
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/1989
Edition description:	2nd ed. 1989
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

The subaltern as hero - Kipling and frontier war; the intellectual as hero - Lawrence of Arabia; the common man as hero - literature of the Western Front; the Christian as hero - Waugh's "Sword of Honour"; the spy as hero - Le Carre and the Cold War; Epilogue - on realism and the heroic.