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- Title
A Coat of Armour.
- Authors
HASS, ROBERT
- Abstract
The article focuses on various literary works that deal with violence and war. It mentions the "Book of Kings" and the psalms of David exploring the tribal self-righteousness and violence, the poems of Homer conveying a tragic sense of war and Anthony Swofford's "Jarhead" discussing his experience in a platoon of marine snipers during the First Iraq War. The author explains that the portrayal of war in literature symbolizes human's love for superior strength with superior agility of mind.
- Subjects
VIOLENCE; WAR; BOOK of Kings (Book); BIBLE. Psalms; SELF-righteousness; POETRY (Literary form); WAR in literature; SYMBOLISM in literature
- Publication
Brick: A Literary Journal, 2013, Issue 90, p10
- ISSN
0382-8565
- Publication type
Article