War and Its Uses - Jürgen Kleist

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Résumé :
In War and Its Uses: 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 conflicts: the Spanish Civil War, the Israeli War for Independence, the Irish Troubles, and medieval chivalric contents.

Biographie:
The Editors: J?rgen Kleist is the author of Das Dilemma der Kunst (Peter Lang, 1989), the novella Nietzsche in Turin (1992), and several short stories that have appeared in anthologies. He has a Ph.D. in German Literature from the University of California, San Diego, and currently is Associate Professor of German at SUNY Plattsburgh.
Bruce A. Butterfield is Professor of English at SUNY Plattsburgh, where he teaches courses in twentieth-century fiction and pursues research and writing on contemporary Canadian literature. He is also book-review editor of the journal The American Review of Canadian Studies.
Both are editors of Mythology: From Ancient to Post-Modern (Peter Lang, 1992); Breakdowns: The Destiny of the Twentieth Century (Peter Lang, 1994); Re-naming the Landscape (Peter Lang, 1994); Fin de Si?cle: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Comparisons and Perspectives (Peter Lang, 1996); and The Spoils of War: The Bright and Bitter Fruits of Human Conflict (Peter Lang, 1997).

Sommaire:
Contents: Lauren Kiefer: War Romanticized: The Evolution of the Chivalric Ideal - Pilar del Carmen Tirado: War Games: Cervantes's Battle of the Sheep - Patricia J. Siegel: The Unsung Hero of the Reformation: Saint Francis de Sales - Joanna Bottenberg: Experience and Memory of War in the Art of Otto Dix and Fritz Grasshoff - Dorothy A. Escribano: The Art of Persuasion/Manipulation: The Romances de la Guerra Civil Espa?ola - James Armstrong: Non-paradigmatic Israeli Wars and the reMaking of Israeliness - K. Thomas Finley: The Magic Bullet and the Mosquito - Wolfgang Bottenberg: War with Whom? The Leningrad Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich - Marshall Onofrio: Popular Music During World War II and Vietnam: Standard Conceptions and More - A. Gilbert Drolet: The Media in the Minefield of History - Harvey L. Schantz: Conflict over how to go to War: Congress, the President, and the War Powers Resolution of 1973 - Reinhold Grimm: War, Its Teenage Experience and Present-Day Essence: Three Poems by Hans Magnus Enzensberger - Ann Snodgrass: Self-Consuming Authorship and the Invented Reader of Rosselli's Sleep: (Mis)Reading the Martial - James Hurt: ?Hope for our Divisions yet?: Neil Jordan and the War in Northern Ireland - Zohreh T. Sullivan: War, Gender, and Postcolonial Writing - Arnd Bohm: Insect Wars - Michael Johnson: Warring Personalities in Popular Culture - Antje Kapust: Figures of Conflict and the Violent Logic of Exclusion - JoEllen Miano: Contrasting Voices in Response to War.