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Title

Battle descriptions as literary texts : a comparative approach / Johanna Luggin, Sebastian Fink, editors.

Publication

• Wiesbaden : Springer VS, [2020]
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

• Luggin, Johanna.
• Fink, Sebastian.

Description

x, 372 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Battle descriptions are usually seen as the raw material of the military historian, who uses them to explain why generals won or lost a given battle. This volume does not aim to contribute to this discussion; it rather approaches battle descriptions as literary texts that interact with the expectations of a given audience. Therefore literary traditions in structure, vocabulary and topics of battle descriptions should be explored. The transgression of genre-borders - also literary and fictional texts are included - and a broad comparative approach, combining evidence from the third millennium BC up to the 20th century AD, makes cultural specifics and differences more easily perceivable. Contents With contributions by Marcos Such-Guttǐrrez, Pavel ech, Hilmar Klinkott, Wolfgang Oswald, Kai Ruffing, Oliver Stoll, Martin M. Bauer, Reinhold Bichler, Christian Mileta, Simon Lentzsch, Sven G

Subject

• Battles in literature
• World history

Contents

Battle descriptions as literary text: an introduction -- Year Names as Source for Military Campaigns in the Third Millennium BC -- Much Ado about Nothing? Battle Descriptions in Ugaritic Texts -- Victor without Victory? The Lack of Battle Descriptions in the Achaeamenid Empire -- Battle Descriptions in the Hebrew Bible: An Overview with Special Attention to the Book of Joshua.-Plataea, 479 BC -- "Eine Schlacht wie keine andere" -- alles nur Literatur, oder was? Agesilaos II., Xenophon und der "Sieg" Spartas in der Schlacht bei Koroneia (14. August, 394 v. Chr.), der vielleicht eher doch eine Niederlage war! -- Parody as a Sign of Generic Consciousness: Battle Descriptions in the Pseudo-Homeric Batrachomyomachia -- The Battle of Gaugamela. A Case Study and Some General Methodological Considerations -- Die "Thermopylenschlacht 2.0" am Persischen Tor (330 v. Chr.) -- Battle Descriptions in Livys Ab Urbe Condita -- Conversus ad pacem ... (Flor. 2.34.65 = 4.12.65) -- Battle Descriptions in Florus Reconsidered -- The Impact of Violence as Heroization Technique in Basinis Hesperis, Naldis Volaterrais and Filelfos Sphortias -- A Battle of Emperors? Contemporary Poetic and Prose Descriptions of Austerlitz (1805) -- The Impossibility of Deliberate Action in Tolstoys Descriptions of Battle in War and Peace -- Historical Distance and Literary Re-Presentation. Ancient Battles in German Classical Studies.

Call Number

JFE 21-6404

ISBN

• 3658278587
• 9783658278588

OCLC

1117565843

Title

Battle descriptions as literary texts : a comparative approach / Johanna Luggin, Sebastian Fink, editors.

Publisher

Wiesbaden : Springer VS, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Luggin, Johanna.

Fink, Sebastian.

Research Call Number

JFE 21-6404