Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442994231
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Sacred Chaos (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442994231
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
SACRED SURFER, ETERNAL WAVE (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442951737
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The Age of Miracles (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: Marianne WilliamsonPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458717569
Category : Middle age
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Gateways to the Otherworld (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442961112
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Daily Thoughts (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: Charles KingsleyPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442917261
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Star of the Magi (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442961333
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Four For A Boy (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458728358
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Antonina Volume 2 of 2(EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427050430
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Sacred Chaos (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)
Author: Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442994266
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Writing War in the Twentieth Century
Author: Margot NorrisPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813919928
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The twentieth century will be remembered for great innovation in two particular areas: art and culture, and technological advancement. Much of its prodigious technical inventiveness, however, was pressed into service in the conduct of warfare. Why, asks Margot Norris, did violence and suffering on such an immense scale fail to arouse artistic and cultural expressions powerful enough to prevent the recurrence of these horrors? Why was art not more successful--through its use of dramatic, emotionally charged material, its ability to stir imagination and arouse empathy and outrage--in producing an alternative to the military logic that legitimates war? Military argument in the twentieth century has been fortified by the authority of the rationalism that we attribute to science, Norris argues. Warfare is therefore legitimized by powerful discourses that art's own arsenal of styles and genres has limited power to counter. Art's difficulty in representing the violent death of entire generations or populations has been particularly acute. Choosing works that have become representative of their historically violent moment, Norris explores not only their aesthetic strategies and perspectives but also the nature of the power they wield and the ethical engagements they enable or impede. She begins by mapping the altered ethical terrain of modern technological warfare, with its increasing targeting of civilian populations for destruction. She then proceeds historically with chapters on the trench poetry and modernist poetry of World War I, Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, both the book and the film of Schindler's List, the conflicting historical stories of the Manhattan Project, a comparison of American and Japanese accounts of Hiroshima, Francis Ford Coppola's film Apocalypse Now, and the effects of press censorship in the Persian Gulf War. By looking at the whole span of the century's writing on war, Norris provides a fascinating critique of art's ethical power and limitations, along with its participation in--as well as protest against--the suffering that human beings have brought upon themselves.