Literature and the war
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Staging Holocaust resistance
Comicall satyre and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
The star-spangled banner
Poets of the great war
After the lost generation
Sanctified violence in Homeric society
The Great War and Modern Memory
The Language of Heroes
Just what war is
The Red Badge of Courage
Poets of WWI
Holocaust fiction
To the halls of the Montezumas
Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, and the Inns of Court revels
The other side of grief
Women's autobiography
The mourner's song
Nationalism, imperialism, and identity in late Victorian culture
The story of the Star-spangled banner
Women writers of the First World War
Jack Aubrey commands
Remembering Biafra
Wilfred Owen
Veteran Narratives and the Collective Memory of the Vietnam War
Boys in khaki, girls in print
Ernest Hemingway's A farewell to arms
Memories of a lost war
Recasting
The presence of the past
So lovely a country will never perish
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