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The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam

Autor James Tatum
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 10 mar 2003
No matter when or where they are fought, all wars have one thing in common: a relentless progression to monuments and memorials for the dead. Likewise all art made from war begins and ends in mourning and remembrance. In The Mourner's Song, James Tatum offers incisive discussions of physical and literary memorials constructed in the wake of war, from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the writings of Stephen Crane, Edmund Wilson, Tim O'Brien, and Robert Lowell.

Tatum's touchstone throughout is the Iliad, not just one of the earliest war poems, but also one of the most powerful examples of the way poetry can be a tribute to and consolation for what is lost in war. Reading the Iliad alongside later works inspired by war, Tatum reveals how the forms and processes of art convert mourning to memorial. He examines the role of remembrance and the distance from war it requires; the significance of landscape in memorialization; the artifacts of war that fire the imagination; the intimate relationship between war and love and its effects on the ferocity with which soldiers wage battle; and finally, the idea of memorialization itself. Because all survivors suffer the losses of war, Tatum's is a story of both victims and victors, commanders and soldiers, women and men. Photographs of war memorials in Vietnam, France, and the United States beautifully augment his testimonials.

Eloquent and deeply moving, The Mourner's Song will speak to anyone interested in the literature of war and the relevance of the classics to our most pressing contemporary needs.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226789934
ISBN-10: 0226789934
Pagini: 235
Ilustrații: 31 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Notă biografică

James Tatum is the Aaron Lawrence Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College. He is the author of several books, most recently Xenophon's Imperial Fiction: On the Education of Cyrus, and the editor of The Search for the Ancient Novel.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
Introduction
A Note on Reading Homer
One Mourners and Monuments
Two The Daughters of Memory
Three Rage for Order
Four The Words of the Sea
Five The Companion Seen but Not Heard
Six The Poetry Is in the Killing
Seven The Fire from Hephaestus
Eight Toward the Autumn Night of Oguma Hideo
Notes
Bibliography
Catalogue of the Muses
Index