Unaccustomed Mercy

Author : William Daniel Ehrhart
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896721890
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unaccustomed Mercy written by William Daniel Ehrhart and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every poet in this anthology represents the terrible beauty that Vietnam engendered in sensitive hearts, the curious grace with which the human spirit can endow even the ugliest realities."No one will get out of this volume without being hammered in the heart and singed in the soul. I could touch the tears on page after page."--Wallace Terry

Author : D. B. Cox
Publisher : Rank Stranger Press
ISBN 13 : 9781599483191
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unaccustomed Mercy written by D. B. Cox and published by Rank Stranger Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catherine Calloway
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1535850604
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gale Researcher Guide for: The Vietnam War in Literature and Its Aftermath written by Catherine Calloway and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gale Researcher Guide for: The Vietnam War in Literature and Its Aftermath is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Author : Adam Piette
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748653910
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature written by Adam Piette and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first reference to literary and cultural representations of war in 20th-century English & US literature and film.Covering the two World Wars, the Spanish Civil War, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, the Troubles in Northern Ireland and the War on Terror, this Companion reveals the influence of modern wars on the imagination.These newly researched and innovative essays connect ’high’ literary studies to the engagement of film and theatre with warfare, extensively covers the literary and cultural evaluation of the technologies of war and open the literary field to genre fiction.Divided into 5 sections: 20th-Century Wars and Their Literatures; Bodies, Behaviours, Cultures; The Cultural Impact of the Technologies of Modern War; The Spaces of Modern War & Genres of War Culture.Key Features: * All-new original essays commissioned from major critics and cultural historians.* Reflects the way war studies are currently being taught and researched: in the volume’s approach, structure and breadth of coverage.* For scholars: core arguments and detailed research topics.* For students: Historically grounded topic- and genre-based essays, useful forstudying the modern period and war modules.

Author : Andrew J. Huebner
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807831441
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Warrior Image written by Andrew J. Huebner and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denne bog giver en udviklingshistorie om den amerikanske soldat fra Anden Verdenskrig og frem til Vietnam-krigen. Hvordan soldaten er blevet repræsenteret på film, i medier (aviser og tidsskrifter), udstillinger og gennem andre formidlingsformer, diskuteres i denne bog.

Author : Vicente F. Gotera
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820315102
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Visions written by Vicente F. Gotera and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although poets have written about warfare since at least the time of Homer, the Vietnam war has struck many observers as being immune to the interpretations of poetry and myth. "Lyric poetry of a traditional kind," writes one critic, "has proved inappropriate to communicate the character of the Vietnam war, its remoteness, its jargonized recapitulations, its seeming imperviousness to aesthetics." Nonetheless, the past two decades have seen an unprecedented outpouring of poetry that seeks to describe and come to terms with that bitterly divisive conflict. In Radical Visions Vince Gotera argues that poetry written by Vietnam veterans underlines the failure of traditional American myths to help Americans understand the war and its aftermath. The book blends sociohistorical commentary with close readings of individual works by such poets as Michael Casey, Walter McDonald, and W. D. Ehrhart. In the book's first section, "The 'Nam," Gotera examines several key mythic structures--the Wild West (a violent extension of the mythic virgin land), the machine in the garden, the city on the hill, regeneration through violence--all of which helped delude Americans about Vietnam and the war being fought there. In the second part, "The World," Gotera shows how another myth, the American Adam as an exemplar of ahistorical innocence, proved unusable for returning veterans attempting to readjust to American life. In addition to exposing these failed myths, Gotera argues, the poetry by Vietnam veterans reflects an effort to construct new myths--most notably that of the "warrior against war," an oxymoronic structure arising from the difficulties faced by returning veterans. In the book's final chapters, Gotera examines the work of Bruce Weigl and Yusef Komunyakaa, two poets whom the author considers most successful at portraying the moral absurdity of the Vietnam war without sacrificing lyrical aesthetics. The first comprehensive study devoted exclusively to poetry by Vietnam veterans, Radical Visions argues that this body of writing registers an important advance in the aesthetics and poetics of war literature and offers a cogent antiwar statement rooted in personal experience.

Author : Jean-Jacques Malo
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616531
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Time I Dreamed About the War written by Jean-Jacques Malo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of essays on the life and writing of W.D. Ehrhart, poet, essayist, memoirist and teacher. The twenty contributors—scholars, publishers, poets—are from the U.S., France, Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, India and Japan. Some are Vietnam or Iraq war veterans. The collection overall studies various aspects of Ehrhart’s writing, as well as his direct influence on the lives of people, both as a writer and as a teacher. The volume concludes with a selection of Ehrhart poems chosen by the contributors because they embody some quality discussed in the essays. The book includes a selected bibliography of Bill Ehrhart’s published writings.

Author : Jan Barry
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595300731
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth Songs written by Jan Barry and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earth Songs unveils extraordinary views of the world discovered by a soldier-turned-poet amid a bitter war and brittle peace. From flowers blooming in battle zones to a dying love's parting words, these poems crackle with life amid death, a storyteller's own true song.

Author : Michael Herr
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307814165
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dispatches written by Michael Herr and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.

Author : Jean-Jacques Malo
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476630046
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book W.D. Ehrhart in Conversation written by Jean-Jacques Malo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  W. D. Ehrhart, named by Studs Terkel as “the poet of the Vietnam War,” has written and lectured on a wide variety of topics and has been a preëminent voice on the Vietnam War for decades. Revered in academia, he has been the subject of many master’s theses, doctoral dissertations, journals and books for which he was interviewed. Yet only two major interviews have been published to date. This complete collection of unpublished interviews from 1991 through 2016 presents Ehrhart’s developing views on a range of subjects over three decades.