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Literature & War
Literature & War
This is the class website for our course, which will examine the challenges, problems, and opportunities of war, when great
crises in human civilization, cause normal rules and values to collapse into spasms of conflict and disorder.
crises in human civilization, cause normal rules and values to collapse into spasms of conflict and disorder.
Course Goals
To explore the history of representations of war in Western Culture—how and why do writers and artists describe and/or deal with the experience of war in their work?
To examine the function of genre and literary technique in the representation of war experience—how does an epic poem differ from tragic play or a novel? What is the relationship between form and meaning in our key texts?
To use literature (and other cultural representations) as a vehicle for discussion of the personal, social, political, and economic implications of war for all of the parties involved—generals, kings, and presidents at the top, “grunt” soldiers on the bottom, family and friends on the homefront, et cetera.
To further develop writing, reading, and thinking skills in the course of pursuing the above goals.
To examine the function of genre and literary technique in the representation of war experience—how does an epic poem differ from tragic play or a novel? What is the relationship between form and meaning in our key texts?
To use literature (and other cultural representations) as a vehicle for discussion of the personal, social, political, and economic implications of war for all of the parties involved—generals, kings, and presidents at the top, “grunt” soldiers on the bottom, family and friends on the homefront, et cetera.
To further develop writing, reading, and thinking skills in the course of pursuing the above goals.
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