Dressing Up for War: Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourse and Literature of War (Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature) - Softcover

Dressing up for War. Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourse and Literature of War.

Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: xx, 292pp., 17 contributions with footnotes - bibliographical notes, acknowledgements, notes on contributors. CONTRIBUTIONS: 1. Laurie Kaplan: 'How Funny I Must Look with my Breeches Pulled Down to my Knees': Nurses' Memoirs and Autobiographies from The Great War. 2. 2. Peter Buitenhuis: The Perversion of Motherhood: the Trope of the Son at the Front. 3. Caroline Zilboorg: The Center of the Cyclone: Gender and Genre in H.D.'s War Novel. 4. María Angeles Toda: Deadly Marriages: Masculinity and the Pleasures of Violence in H.R. Haggard's Romances of Adventures. 5. António Lopes: [Un]masking the Self: the Hero in Edwardian Popular Fiction. 6. Jane E. Schultz: Performing Genres: Sarah Edmonds' Nurse and Spy and the Case of the Cross-Dressed Text. 7. 7. Ana María Sanchez-Arce: The Prop They Need: Undressing and the Politics of War in Beryl Bainbridge's Master Georgie. 8. Renate Peters: The Metamorphoses of Judith in Literature and Art: War by Other Means. 9. Tabea Alexa Linhard: Adelita's Radical Act of Counter-Writing. 10. Simon Barker: Dressing up for War: Militarism in Early Modern Culture. 11. Joan Curbet: Repressing the Amazon: Cross-Dressing and Militarism in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. 12. Jenny Hartley: Warriors and Healers, Impostors and Mothers: Betty Miller's On the Side of the Angels. 13. Maria Antònio Oliver: 'Sangre Fértil' / Fertile Blood: Migratory Crossings, War and Healing in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands / La Frontera. 14. Lorrie Goldensohn: Towards a Non-Combatant War Poetry: Jarrell, Moore, Bishop. 15. Simon Philo: Breaking the Silence, Crossing the Line: Women Veteran Poets of the Vietnam War. 16. Kathleen Brady & John Briggs & Edward A. Hagan: The Enemy is 'Us': Misconstruing the Real war in The Deer Hunter and Other Post-Vietnam War Narratives. 17. Claire Tylee: 'Name upon Name': Myth, Ritual and the Past in Recent Irish Plays Referring to the Great War. Very fine copy - as new., Volume 24: Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature. Artikel-Nr. 163141

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