War and Literature: Commiserating with the Enemy

• Main Author: McCoppin, Rachel (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: political conflict; fiction; Robert Graves; funeral songs; contemporary Irish fiction; oral tradition; commiseration; Islamophobia; Hmong; Herbert Read; Lucy Hutchinson; south-asian rhetoric; Ford Madox Ford; encounters; Briseis; Margaret Cavendish; World War One; rhetoric; Second World War; colonialism; memoir; fantasy; Siegfried Sassoon; narrative; English Civil War; war narratives; interpreter; captive-women; Northern Ireland; Anne Devlin; Western American literature; enemyship; Italian Front; frontier literature; Randall Jarrell; settler-colonialism; First World War; commiseration in arjun; Afghanistan; distance; Sebastian Barry; World War I; ideology; Will Mackin; soldiers; masculinity; Luke Mogelson; trench warfare; Indian Wars; Emilio Lussu; terrorism; Ireland; Wilfred Owen; Irish literature; empathy; war poetry; J. R. R. Tolkien; A Long Long Way; war; war writing; Vietnam/Vietnamese; enemies; krishan's rhetoric; 1916 Easter Rising; reconciliation; vyas' rhetoric; Edna O'Brien; cognitive dissonance; rhetoric in the mahabharat; George Armstrong Custer; Keith Douglas; war literature; Andromache; Robert Service; Homer; Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
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This Special Issue focuses specifically on the topic of commiseration with the "enemy" within war literature. The articles included in this Special Issue show authors and/or literary characters attempting to understand the motives, beliefs, and cultural values of those who have been define...