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Melancholia, War and the Spectral

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This unit will address the question: How do literary and filmic representations of wars, across time, interpret and challenge the fact of war. The First World War and the Second World War will be looked at as background for a more focussed study of The Cold War; The Vietnam War and War in the Age of Terrorism. Texts will be literary (example - A selection of Poetry, war songs and Novels) and Filmic ( eg: Hiroshima Mon Amour). The focus of the unit will be on the ways in which these texts represent experiences of war otherwise not represented by History or media coverage, and the difficulties involved for the artist in representing trauma. Themes addressed: Honour;... -- Course Website

Instructor: A Mc Culloch

Prerequisites: Successful completion of at least one second year literature unit



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