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Modernism (Literature) --- War and literature. --- War in literature. --- Modernism (Literature). --- Krieg. --- Englisch. --- Literatur. --- Moderne. --- Kriegsliteratur.

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Civil war --- Civil war in literature --- Guerre civile --- Guerre civile dans la littérature --- History --- Histoire

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American literature in the nineteenth century is often divided into two asymmetrical halves, neatly separated by the Civil War. In Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War, Cody Marrs argues that the war is a far more elastic boundary for literary history than has frequently been assumed. Focusing on the later writings of Walt Whitman, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson, this book shows how the war took imaginative shape across, and even beyond, the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms and expressions for decades after 1865. These writers, Marrs demonstrates, are best understood not as antebellum or postbellum figures but as transbellum authors who cipher their later experiences through their wartime impressions and prewar ideals. This book is a bold, revisionary contribution to debates about temporality, periodization, and the shape of American literary history.

American literature --- War and literature --- War in literature. --- Literature and war --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- United States --- Literature and the war.

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During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold War began, high-minded and well-intentioned scholars, critics, and writers from across the political spectrum argued that human values remained crucial to civilization and that such values stood in dire need of formulation and affirmation. They believed that the complexity of literature—of ideas bound to concrete images, of ideologies leavened with experiences—enshrined such values as no other medium could. Creative writing emerged as a graduate discipline in the United States amid this astonishing swirl of grand conceptions. The early workshops were formed not only at the time of, but in the image of, and under the tremendous urgency of, the postwar imperatives for the humanities. Vivid renderings of personal experience would preserve the liberal democratic soul—a soul menaced by the gathering leftwing totalitarianism of the USSR and the memory of fascism in Italy and Germany. Workshops of Empire explores this history via the careers of Paul Engle at the University of Iowa and Wallace Stegner at Stanford. In the story of these founding fathers of the discipline, Eric Bennett discovers the cultural, political, literary, intellectual, and institutional underpinnings of creative writing programs within the university. He shows how the model of literary technique championed by the first writing programs—a model that values the interior and private life of the individual, whose experiences are not determined by any community, ideology, or political system—was born out of this Cold War context and continues to influence the way creative writing is taught, studied, read, and written into the twenty-first century.

American literature --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Creative writing --- United States --- Stegner, Wallace Earle --- Criticism and interpretation --- Engle, Paul --- Cold War in literature --- Writing (Authorship) --- Authorship --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Stegner, Wallace, --- Engle, Paul, --- Stegner, Wallace Earle, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- E-books --- Cold War in literature. --- History and criticism.

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In his civil war epic, the Roman poet Lucan draws extensively on his literary forbears. This study fills a gap in the research by going beyond the boundaries of language and genre to examine his reception of Greek literature, especially Attic tragedy and Hellenistic poetry. It reveals the importance of mythical and literary models, such as the Trojan War and the fratricidal war around Thebes, for Lucan’s epic formulation of the civil war theme. In seinem Bürgerkriegsepos fiktionalisiert Lucan den historischen Stoff in einer intensiven literarischen Auseinandersetzung mit seinen Vorgängern, die bisher meist anhand seines Verhältnisses zur Geschichtsschreibung und zur römischen Epik untersucht worden ist. Die vorliegende Studie schließt eine Lücke der Lucan-Forschung, indem sie den Blick über die Sprach- und Gattungsgrenzen hinweg auf die Rezeption der griechischen Literatur richtet, insbesondere der attischen Tragödie und der hellenistischen Dichtung. Am Beispiel ausgewählter Passagen wird die Bedeutung von mythisch-literarischen Modellen wie dem Troianischen Krieg und dem Bruderkrieg um Theben für Lucans epische Gestaltung des Bürgerkriegsthemas aufgezeigt. Mittels intertextueller und narratologischer Analysen wird die Adaptation und Transformation der griechischen Prätexte untersucht, die im Bellum civile sowohl direkt als auch in der Vermittlung über lateinische Texte, etwa die Tragödien Senecas, rezipiert sind. Dabei soll auch der Frage nachgegangen werden, in welcher Weise in unterschiedlichen historischen und gesellschaftlichen Kontexten der antiken Kultur Kriegs- und Bürgerkriegserfahrungen im Medium des Mythos und der Dichtung gespiegelt werden.

Civil war in literature. --- Latin and Greek. --- Greek and Latin. --- Lucanus, M. Annaeus --- Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus, --- Pharsalia (Lucan). --- Lucanus, M. Annaeus, --- War in literature. --- Comparative literature --- Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Greek literature, Hellenistic --- Griechisch. --- Latin literature --- Literatur. --- Rezeption. --- Influence. --- Greek influences. --- Lucan, --- Pharsalia (Lucan) --- Pypłacz, Joanna. --- Bellum civile (Lucan) --- De bello civili (Lucan) --- M. Annei Lucani De bello civili (Lucan) --- Marci Annaei Lucani Pharsalia, sive De bello civili libri X (Lucan) --- M. Annaei Lucani De bello civili, sive, Pharsalia (Lucan) --- De bello civili, sive, Pharsalia (Lucan) --- Lucan Civil War (Lucan) --- Bellum civile. --- M. Annaeus Lucanus.