War: The Combat between Power-Hungry Individuals in American War Literature

Brkić, Matea

undergraduate thesis

War: The Combat between Power-Hungry Individuals in American War Literature

Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 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

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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

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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 September 12] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:981267

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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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Title	War: The Combat between Power-Hungry Individuals in American War Literature
Title (croatian)	Rat: bitka između pojedinaca željnih moći u američkoj ratnoj književnosti
Author	Matea Brkić
Mentor	Jasna Poljak Rehlicki (mentor)
Granter	Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Department of English Language and Literature) Osijek
Defense date and country	2018-09-05, 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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Language	english
URN:NBN	urn:nbn:hr:142:981267
Study programme	Title: English Language and Literature (double major) Study programme type: university Study level: undergraduate Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
Study programme	Title: Hungarian Language and Literature (double major) Study programme type: university Study level: undergraduate Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) mađarskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) mađarskoga jezika i književnosti)
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Created on	2018-09-26 12:22:52

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