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War and its uses : conflict and creativity edited by Jürgen Kleist & Bruce A. Butterfield - Bern ; New York Peter Lang c1999 - xiii, 304 p. ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents : War Romanticized: The Evolution of the Chivalric Ideal / Lauren Kiefer -- War Games: Cervantes's Battle of the Sheep / Pilar del Carmen Tirado -- The Unsung Hero of the Reformation: Saint Francis de Sales / Patricia J. Siegel -- Experience and Memory of War in the Art of Otto Dix and Fritz Grasshoff / Joanna Bottenberg -- The Art of Persuasion/Manipulation: The Romances de la Guerra Civil Espanola / Dorothy A. Escribano -- Non-paradigmatic Israeli Wars and the reMaking of Israeliness / James Armstrong -- The Magic Bullet and the Mosquito / K. Thomas Finley -- War with Whom? The Leningrad Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich / Wolfgang Bottenberg -- Popular Music During World War II and Vietnam: Standard Conceptions and More / Marshall Onofrio -- The Media in the Minefield of History / A. Gilbert Drolet -- Conflict over how to go to War: Congress, the President, and the War Powers Resolution of 1973 / Harvey L. Schantz

ISBN: 9780820440675

ISSN: 98020806

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Arts
Politics and war
War and society
War in art

Dewey Class. No.: 355.02 KLE