Mourner's Song War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam

Name: Mourner's Song War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam
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ISBN: 9780226789941

ISBN-10: 0226789942

ISBN-13: 9780226789941

Edition: 2004

Authors: James Tatum

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Tatum offers incisive discussions of physical and literary memorials constructed in the wake of war. The touchstone throughout is the Iliad, not just as one of the earliest war poems, but also as a powerful example of the way poetry acts as both tribute and consolation for loss.

Book details

Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 236
Size: 6.18" wide x 8.94" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction


A Note on Reading Homer



Mourners and Monuments



The Daughters of Memory



Rage for Order



The Words of the Sea



The Companion Seen But Not Heard



The Poetry Is in the Killing



The Fire From Hephaestus



Toward the Autumn Night of Oguma Hideo


Notes


Bibliography


Catalogue of the Muses


Index