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Terrorism and Modern Literature
From Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson
Av Alex Houen
E-bok, 2002
712 kr
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Is terrorism''s violence essentially symbolic? Does it impact on culture primarily through the media? What kinds of performative effect do the various discourses surrounding terrorism have? Such questions have not only become increasingly important in terrorism studies, they have also been concerns …
Sacrifice and Modern War Literature
The Battle of Waterloo to the War on Terror
Av Jan-Melissa Schramm, Alex Houen
E-bok, 2018
1560 kr
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Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. It has been common for critics to argue that after the First World War many of the cultural and religious values associated …
Sacrifice and Modern War Literature
The Battle of Waterloo to the War on Terror
Av Jan-Melissa Schramm, Alex Houen
E-bok, 2018
1560 kr
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Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. It has been common for critics to argue that after the First World War many of the cultural and religious values associated …
Terrorism and Modern Literature
From Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson
Av Alex Houen
Inbunden, 2002
1514 kr
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Is terrorism's violence essentially symbolic? Does it impact on culture primarily through the media? What kinds of performative effect do the various discourses surrounding terrorism have? Such questions have not only become increasingly important in terrorism studies, they have also been concerns …
Terrorism and Modern Literature
From Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson
Av Alex Houen
Häftad, 2002
1155 kr
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Is terrorism's violence essentially symbolic? Does it impact on culture primarily through the media? What kinds of performative effect do the various discourses surrounding terrorism have? Such questions have not only become increasingly important in terrorism studies, they have also been concerns …
Powers of Possibility
Experimental American Writing since the 1960s
Av Alex Houen
Häftad, 2014
941 kr
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In The Meaning of Contemporary Realism (1957) Georg Lukács discussed how the power struggle of the Cold War made it all the more pressing for literary writers to present 'concrete potentialities' of individual character in novel ways. Powers of Possibility explores how American experimental writers …
Sacrifice and Modern War Literature
The Battle of Waterloo to the War on Terror
Av Alex Houen, Alex Houen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1730 kr
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Sacrifice and Modern War Literature is the first book to explore how writers from the early nineteenth century to the present have addressed the intimacy of sacrifice and war. It has been common for critics to argue that after the First World War many of the cultural and religious values associated …
Sacrifice and Modern War Writing
Atavisms, Martyrdoms, and Economies of Loss
Av Alex Houen
Inbunden, 2024
1533 kr
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Sacrifice and Modern War Writing presents the most extensive study to date of twentieth- and twenty-first-century war writing. Examining works by over 110 authors, Alex Houen surveys how war writing explores sacrifice in relation to major modern and contemporary conflicts, from the First World War …
Sacrifice and Modern War Writing
Atavisms, Martyrdoms, and Economies of Loss
Av Alex Houen
E-bok, 2024
1371 kr
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Sacrifice and Modern War Writing presents the most extensive study to date of twentieth- and twenty-first-century war writing. Examining works by over 110 authors, Alex Houen surveys how war writing explores sacrifice in relation to major modern and contemporary conflicts, from the First World War …
Sacrifice and Modern War Writing
Atavisms, Martyrdoms, and Economies of Loss
Av Alex Houen
E-bok, 2024
1371 kr
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Sacrifice and Modern War Writing presents the most extensive study to date of twentieth- and twenty-first-century war writing. Examining works by over 110 authors, Alex Houen surveys how war writing explores sacrifice in relation to major modern and contemporary conflicts, from the First World War …
Martyrdom and Terrorism
Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives
E-bok, 2014
404 kr
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In recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world. In Islam, martyrdom is mostly conceived as "bearing witness" to faith and God. Martyrdom is also central to the Christian tradition, not only in the …
Powers of Possibility
Experimental American Writing since the 1960s
Av Alex Houen
Inbunden, 2011
2547 kr
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In The Meaning of Contemporary Realism (1957) Georg Lukács discussed how the power struggle of the Cold War made it all the more pressing for literary writers to present 'concrete potentialities' of individual character in novel ways. Powers of Possibility explores how American experimental writers …
Martyrdom and Terrorism
Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives
Inbunden, 2014
2673 kr
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In recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world. In Islam, martyrdom is mostly conceived as bearing witness to faith and God. Martyrdom is also central to the Christian tradition, not only in the …
Martyrdom and Terrorism
Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives
E-bok, 2014
404 kr
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In recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world. In Islam, martyrdom is mostly conceived as "bearing witness" to faith and God. Martyrdom is also central to the Christian tradition, not only in the …
Martyrdom and Terrorism
Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives
Häftad, 2014
711 kr
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In recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom, in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world. Islam contains manifold concepts of martyrdom, some of which link ''bearing witness'' to faith and God. Martyrdom is also central to the Christian …
States of War since 9/11
Terrorism, Sovereignty and the War on Terror
Av Alex Houen
Inbunden, 2014
2600 kr
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This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the spread of the 'War on Terror' has entwined matters of state sovereignty and states of war into mutually affecting relations. Pre-emptive attacks on terrorist groups in ‘rogue’ states, ‘outsourcing’ of state militancy and the mutable state of …
Affect and Literature
Av Alex Houen
Inbunden, 2020
2153 kr
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This book considers how 'affect', the experience of feeling or emotion, has developed as a critical concept within literary studies in different periods and through a range of approaches. Stretching from the classical to the contemporary, the first section of the book, 'Origins', considers the …
Affect and Literature
Av Alex Houen
E-bok, 2020
2137 kr
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This book considers how ''affect'', the experience of feeling or emotion, has developed as a critical concept within literary studies in different periods and through a range of approaches. Stretching from the classical to the contemporary, the first section of the book, ''Origins'', considers the …
Affect and Literature
Av Alex Houen
E-bok, 2020
2137 kr
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This book considers how ''affect'', the experience of feeling or emotion, has developed as a critical concept within literary studies in different periods and through a range of approaches. Stretching from the classical to the contemporary, the first section of the book, ''Origins'', considers the …
States of War since 9/11
Terrorism, Sovereignty and the War on Terror
Av Alex Houen
E-bok, 2014
890 kr
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This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the spread of the ''War on Terror'' has entwined matters of state sovereignty and states of war into mutually affecting relations. Pre-emptive attacks on terrorist groups in ‘rogue’ states, ‘outsourcing’ of state militancy and the mutable …
States of War since 9/11
Terrorism, Sovereignty and the War on Terror
Av Alex Houen
E-bok, 2014
910 kr
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This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the spread of the ''War on Terror'' has entwined matters of state sovereignty and states of war into mutually affecting relations. Pre-emptive attacks on terrorist groups in ‘rogue’ states, ‘outsourcing’ of state militancy and the mutable …
States of War since 9/11
Terrorism, Sovereignty and the War on Terror
Av Alex Houen
Häftad, 2015
776 kr
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This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the spread of the 'War on Terror' has entwined matters of state sovereignty and states of war into mutually affecting relations. Pre-emptive attacks on terrorist groups in ‘rogue’ states, ‘outsourcing’ of state militancy and the mutable state of …
