The Spoils of War includes essays by fourteen scholars in a variety of disciplines who consider both the destructive and constructive forces of war from the days of the Greeks and Trojans to medieval times, from the American Civil War through World Wars I and II, to the Cold War and Vietnam, and even the recent uprisings in Chiapas.
In these fifteen essays, Canadianists from many disciplines assess current issues in the fields of history, politics, literature, immigrant identities, and environment. Scholars from Canada join their colleagues from the United States and Europe to offer a contemporary portrait of the challenges this country faces in the new millennium.
In War and Its Conflict and Creativity , scholars from many disciplines assess both the positive and negative effects of war - primarily such major conflicts of the twentieth century as World War II, Vietnam, the Cold War, and several smaller the Spanish Civil War, the Israeli War for Independence, the Irish Troubles, and medieval chivalric contents.
In Fin de si�cle, fourteen scholars from a variety of disciplines discuss phenomena at the end of the nineteenth century and compare them to those at the end of the twentieth century.
This book is a collection of essays by scholars and artists who participated in the symposium "Breakdowns" at the State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh in March 1992. The essays address breakdowns of the twentieth century - in social, educational, political and economic spheres - as well as deconstruction in literature and explore both the sources and significance of the phenomenon.
In diesem Buch wird anhand von acht Prosatexten aus der deutschsprachigen Literatur die Weiterentwicklung der Kunst- und Künstlerproblematik nach 1945 dargestellt. Es wird gezeigt, daß diese Entwicklung in drei Phasen In der zweiten Hälfte der vierziger und zu Beginn der fünfziger Jahre setzten sich die Schriftsteller hauptsächlich mit der Problematik des Krieges auseinander. In den sechziger Jahren engagierten sich Kunst und Künstler in gesellschaftskritischer Weise, - und zu Beginn der siebziger Jahre fand eine Kehrtwendung Der Künstler wendete sich von der Gesellschaft ab und seinem Selbst zu.