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War: The Combat between Power-Hungry Individuals in American War Literature
2018. urn:nbn:hr:142:981267
Brkić, Matea
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Brkić, M. (2018). War: The Combat between Power-Hungry Individuals in American War Literature (Undergraduate thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:981267

Brkić, Matea. "War: The Combat between Power-Hungry Individuals in American War Literature." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:981267

Brkić, Matea. "War: The Combat between Power-Hungry Individuals in American War Literature." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:981267

Brkić, M. (2018). 'War: The Combat between Power-Hungry Individuals in American War Literature', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 21 December 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:981267

Brkić M. War: The Combat between Power-Hungry Individuals in American War Literature [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2018 [cited 2024 December 21] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:981267

M. Brkić, "War: The Combat between Power-Hungry Individuals in American War Literature", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2018. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:981267

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TitleWar: The Combat between Power-Hungry Individuals in American War Literature
Title (croatian)Rat: bitka između pojedinaca željnih moći u američkoj ratnoj književnosti
AuthorMatea Brkić
MentorJasna Poljak Rehlicki (mentor)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2018-09-05, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
To American nation, World War II was a noble and just war to end fascism around the world. In other words, Americans perceived it as a mythical quest that required the most heroic and ready soldiers. However, some of the most critically acclaimed American World War II novels, depict an entirely different portrayal of war and combatants. Instead of focusing on the combat between Americans and their adversary, the novels inspect American army as a battleground in which officers thrive at the expense of their own soldiers. Enlisted men with higher rank are portrayed as power-hungry people fighting only for ranks and rewards. Examples can be found in Heller's Catch-22 and Mailer's The Naked and the Dead. Northrop Frye's "Theory of Modes" will serve as a theoretical background for the interpretation and analysis of officers and soldiers in the novel suggesting two distinguished types of characters – commander as alazon, and soldier as pharmakos. Finally, the paper will analyze a special character of a trickster, who very well depicts the absurdist vision of the army and war therefore shattering the preconceived perception of the war as something noble and mythical.
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Languageenglish
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Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
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Study programmeTitle: Hungarian Language and Literature (double major)
Study programme type: university
Study level: undergraduate
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