Librarian View
LEADER
04322cam a22005414a 4500
001
12688759
005
20200728072052.0
006
m o d
007
cr||||||||nn|n
008
150721s2015 ilu o 00 0 eng d
020
|a
0252097858
020
|a
9780252097850
020
|z
9780252039751 (hardback)
035
|a
(MdBmJHUP)muse47773
035
|a
12688759
040
|a
MdBmJHUP
|b
eng
|c
MdBmJHUP
043
|a
n-us---
050
0
0
|a
PS169.W27
|b
M37 2015
082
0
0
|a
810.9/358
|2
23
100
1
|a
Mariani, Giorgio,
|d
1954-
245
1
0
|a
Waging war on war
|h
[electronic resource] :
|b
peacefighting in American literature /
|c
Giorgio Mariani.
260
|a
Urbana :
|b
University of Illinois Press,
|c
2015.
|e
(Baltimore, Md. :
|f
Project MUSE,
|g
2015)
300
|a
1 online resource (pages cm.)
336
|a
text
|b
txt
337
|a
computer
|b
c
338
|a
online resource
|b
cr
490
1
|a
Global studies of the United States
504
|a
Includes bibliographical references and index.
506
|a
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
520
|a
"The notion that war plays a fundamental role in the United States' idea of itself obscures the rich--and by no means nai;ve--seam of anti-war thinking that winds through American culture. Non-violent resistance, far from being a philosophy of passive dreamers, instead embodies Ralph Waldo Emerson's belief that peace "can never be defended, never be executed, by cowards." Giorgio Mariani rigorously engages with the essential question of what makes a text explicitly anti-war. Ranging from Emerson and Joel Barlow to Maxine Hong Kingston and Tim O'Brien, Waging War on War explores why sustained attempts at identifying the anti-war text's formal and philosophical features seem to always end at an impasse. Mariani moves a step beyond to construct a theoretical model that invites new inquiries into America's nonviolent, nonconformist tradition even as it challenges the ways we study U.S. warmaking and the cultural reactions to it. In the process, he shows how the ideal of nonviolence and a dislike of war have been significant, if nonhegemonic, features of American culture since the nation's early days. Ambitious and nuanced, Waging War on War at last defines anti-war literature while exploring the genre's role in an assertive peacefighting project that offered--and still offers--alternatives to violence"--
|c
Provided by publisher.
520
|a
"While war is considered to play a fundamental role in the United States' conception of itself, American war literature is usually read as being anti-war. This is to a large extent a fate shared by all modern war literature, which is seen as engaged almost by default in a critique of the madness and meaninglessness of military conflict. However, rigorous discussions of what exactly makes a text anti-war are rare. Even though anti-war literature is sometimes considered a literary genre of its own, no sustained attempts at identifying its formal or philosophical features have been made. This book argues that there are objective reasons for this impasse and discusses an impressive and well-chosen range of texts: Joel Barlow's The Columbiad, Melville's Moby-Dick, Ellen La Motte's The Backwash of War, William Faulkner's A Fable, Tim O'Brien's 'How To Tell A True War Story', Maxine Hong Kingston's The Fifth Book of Peace, poetry by Brian Turner and Helen Benedict's Sand Queen"--
|c
Provided by publisher.
588
|a
Description based on print version record.
590
|a
Access is available to the Yale community.
650
0
|a
American literature
|x
History and criticism.
650
0
|a
Peace in literature.
650
0
|a
Peace movements in literature.
650
0
|a
War and literature
|z
United States.
710
2
|a
Project Muse.
730
0
|a
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
852
8
0
|z
Online Resource
856
4
0
|y
Online book
|u
https://yale.idm.oclc.org/login?URL=https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780252097850/
830
0
|a
Global studies of the United States.
901
|a
PS169.W27
902
|a
Yale Internet Resource
|b
Yale Internet Resource >> None|DELIM|12796101
905
|a
online resource
907
|a
2016-02-09T11:00:35.000Z
946
|a
DO NOT EDIT. DO NOT EXPORT.
953
4
0
|a
https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780252097850/