It is widely assumed today that heroism is obsolete as an ideal, that heroic virtue is a contradiction in terms, and that war literature must be anti-war by definition.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