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Nov 25, 2024
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ENGL 182C - Readings in Literature: Johnny Got His Gun: American Goes to War: Narrative From the Red Badge of Courage to the Present
The decision to go to war imposes a variety of pressures on a culture as it gathers men and motive to explain its actions and prosecute its cause. It inevitably exposes the deepest structures of the national narrative, its myths, beliefs, contradictions and fracture. The events of war bring into the open the complex, often conflicted relationship of ideology, collective purpose, group identify and individual action that is ultimately transformed into national policy. The literature that emerges out of war records these patterns as the various texts—fiction and film, poetry and song-make vivid the trauma within the individual and collective sensibilities, so that reader (and perhaps nation) comes to understand the consequences of such a choice.
Prerequisites & Notes
ENGL 1 and 2.
Semester Hours: 3
Summer 2008 Offering:
SSI
60751: M-Th, 3:10-6 p.m., Alter, 204 Brower
Course meets 5/21-6/12.
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