ISBN:
9780773587632
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (299 p)
Series Statement:
Lit004080 Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Bearing Witness : Perspectives on War and Peace from the Arts and Humanities
DDC:
809.9335
Keywords:
Peace in art
;
Art and war
;
War and literature
;
War in literature
;
War in art
;
Peace in literature
;
Peace in art
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Artists and humanists reflect upon the paradox of war.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface: Bearing Witness -- For What? An Introduction -- PART I: Exploring the Roots of War: Performance, History, Poetry, and Language -- 1 Warplay: Spectacle, Performance, and (Dis) Simulation of Combat -- 2 Understanding the Motivation to Enlist -- 3 Canadian Poets on War -- 4 Metaphor, Metalepsis, and the Colonial Library: Deconstructing Inyenzi and Ubuhake Metaphors in Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali and Julien Pierce's Speak, Rwanda -- PART II: Bearing Witness to War and Peace: The Vocabularies of Literature, Art, and Photography -- 5 The Georgics of War and Peace: Following Claude Simon, Nobel Laureate -- 6 "Expressionist-Artillerist": "Poet" and "Soldier" as Conflicting Role Models in German Avant-Garde Poetry from the First World War -- 7 Above or Below Ground? Depicting Corpses in First and Second World War Official Canadian War Art -- 8 Bearing Witness and Cultural Memory: The Wreckage, Burning Vision, and War in the Pacific -- 9 Emmy Andriesse, Dutch Wartime Photographer: The Hunger Winter of 1945 -- PART III: Taking Some Lessons from History: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Search for Peace -- 10 Underlining the Lies Surrounding the "Holy War" and "Infinite Justice" -- 11 Comparing South Africa's Negotiated Settlement with Elusive Peacemaking in Israel/Palestine -- 12 Northern War Stories: The Dene, the Archive, and Canada's Atomic Modernity -- PART IV: For What? Artists' Reflections on Film, Poetry, and Music -- 13 Perspectives on War -- 14 On Active Service, and Let Us Wake from This Dream: A Poem and a String Quartet -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface: Bearing Witness""; ""For What? An Introduction""; ""PART I: Exploring the Roots of War: Performance, History, Poetry, and Language""; ""1 Warplay: Spectacle, Performance, and (Dis) Simulation of Combat""; ""2 Understanding the Motivation to Enlist""; ""3 Canadian Poets on War""; ""4 Metaphor, Metalepsis, and the Colonial Library: Deconstructing Inyenzi and Ubuhake Metaphors in Gil Courtemanche�s A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali and Julien Pierce�s Speak, Rwanda""
Description / Table of Contents:
""PART II: Bearing Witness to War and Peace: The Vocabularies of Literature, Art, and Photography""""5 The Georgics of War and Peace: Following Claude Simon, Nobel Laureate""; ""6 “Expressionist-Artillerist�: “Poet� and “Soldier� as Conflicting Role Models in German Avant-Garde Poetry from the First World War""; ""7 Above or Below Ground? Depicting Corpses in First and Second World War Official Canadian War Art""; ""8 Bearing Witness and Cultural Memory: The Wreckage, Burning Vision, and War in the Pacific""
Description / Table of Contents:
""9 Emmy Andriesse, Dutch Wartime Photographer: The Hunger Winter of 1945""""PART III: Taking Some Lessons from History: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Search for Peace""; ""10 Underlining the Lies Surrounding the “Holy War� and “Infinite Justice�""; ""11 Comparing South Africa�s Negotiated Settlement with Elusive Peacemaking in Israel/Palestine""; ""12 Northern War Stories: The Dene, the Archive, and Canada�s Atomic Modernity""; ""PART IV: For What? Artists� Reflections on Film, Poetry, and Music""; ""13 Perspectives on War""
Description / Table of Contents:
""14 On Active Service, and Let Us Wake from This Dream: A Poem and a String Quartet""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Permalink
