War and Words: Horror and Heroism in the Literature of Warfare

by Sara Munson Deats (Editor), Lagretta Tallent Lenker, Merry G. Perry

War and Words is a sweeping study of the profound, painful, and most significantly, defining cultural moments. Working from Homer through to Hemingway and in all traditions, some of the nation's best scholars of literature illustrate how literature and language affect not only the present but also future generations by shaping history even as they represent it. This powerful collection affirms that the humanities remain a site of the most profound reflection on human experience and historical events that have, for better and worse, shaped world civilization. War and Words offers students of literature critical tools for reading literary explorations of ambivalence toward war and provides teachers of literature a suggested syllabus for a course that has become all too necessary in a time when all our lives are touched by war.

368 pages, Hardcover

First published October 28, 2004

About the author

Sara Munson Deats currently holds the title of Distinguished University Professor of English and Co-Director of the Center of Applied Humanities at University of South Florida (USF). Dr. Deats received her B.A. from UCLA and continued her studies, first at Stanford University and later at UCLA, where she received her Ph.D. in 1970. During her tenure at USF, she has served as Director of the Graduate English Program, Chair of the English Department, and Associate Dean of both the Colleges of Arts and Letters and the Graduate School. She has also served as President of the Faculty Senate.