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001 2014032734
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008 140917s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014032734
020 $a9781138805347 (hbk)
020 $z9781315752426 (ebk)
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050 00 $aPN1080$b.A34 2015
082 00 $a809.1/93581$223
084 $aLIT014000$aLIT000000$aHIS027000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aAberbach, David,$d1953-$eauthor.
245 10 $aNational poetry, empires and war /$cDavid Aberbach.
264 1 $aNew York ;$aLondon :$bRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group,$c2015.
300 $axii, 368 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aRoutledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature ;$v32
520 $a"Nationalism has given the world a genre of poetry bright with ideals of justice, freedom and the brotherhood of man, but also, at times, burning with humiliation and grievance, hatred and lust for revenge, driving human kind, as the Austrian poet Grillparzer put it, 'From humanity via nationality to bestiality'. National Poetry, Empires and War considers national poetry, and its glorification of war, from ancient to modern times, in a series of historical, social and political perspectives. Starting with the Hebrew Bible and Homer and moving through the Crusades and examples of subsequent empires, this book has much on pre-modern national poetry but focuses chiefly on post-1789 poetry which emerged from the weakening and collapse of empires, as the idealistic liberalism of nationalism in the age of Byron, Whitman, D'Annunzio, Yeats, Bialik, and Kipling was replaced by darker purposes culminating in World War I and the rise of fascism. Many national poets are the subject of countless critical and biographical studies, but this book aims to give a panoramic view of national poetry as a whole. It will be of great interest to any scholars of nationalism, Jewish Studies, history, comparative literature, and general cultural studies"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 325-348) and index.
650 0 $aPoetry$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aNationalism in literature.
650 0 $aWar and literature.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / Military / General.$2bisacsh