The Literature of War: Studies in Heroic Virtue

by Andrew Rutherford

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It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition. The author argues that the theoretical foundations of these assumptions are inadequate and do not fit the literary facts.
  • ISBN10 0333461649
  • ISBN13 9780333461648
  • Publish Date January 1989 (first published 1 January 1978)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 15 January 1993
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
  • Edition 2nd Revised edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 208
  • Language English