The Literature of Absolute War

Transnationalism and World War II

The Literature of Absolute War
Nil Santianez
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28 May 2020 UK
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9781108495127
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This book explores for the first time the literature of absolute war in connection to World War II. From a transnational and comparative standpoint, it addresses a set of theoretical, historical, and literary questions, shedding new light on the nature of absolute war, the literature on the world war of 1939-45, and modern war writing in general. It determines the main features of the language of absolute war, and how it gravitates around fundamental semantic clusters, such as the horror, terror, and the specter. The Literature of Absolute War studies the variegated responses given by literary authors to the extreme and seemingly unsolvable challenges posed by absolute war to epistemology, ethics, and language. It also delves into the different poetics that articulate the writing on absolute war, placing special emphasis on four literary practices: traditional realism, traumatic realism, the fantastic, and catastrophic modernism.
Nil Santianez is Professor of Spanish and International Studies at Saint Louis University. He has authored Wittgenstein's Ethics and Modern Warfare (2018); Topographies of Fascism: Habitus, Space, and Writing in Twentieth-Century Spain (2013); Goya/Clausewitz: Paradigmas de la guerra absoluta (2009); Investigaciones literarias: Modernidad, historia de la literatura y modernismos (2002); Angel Ganivet: Una bibliografia anotada (1892-1995) (1996); De la Luna a Mecanopolis: Antologia de la ciencia ficcion espanola (1832-1913) (1995); and Angel Ganivet, escritor modernista: Teoria y novela en el fin de siglo espanol (1994).
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ISBN-13: 9781108495127
Published: 28 May 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 235mm
Width: 158mm
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 520g
Pages: 280

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