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War and its Narratives: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Graduate Study

MLA 102 - Fall 2012 - Instructor: Paulson, L.
Last Updated: 10-Oct-2012

A guide to resources for MLA 102: War and its Narratives: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies. Limited to and required of second-year MLA students. Historical, literary, artistic, medical, and theological issues are covered. Focus is on skills and information needed to pursue MLA graduate work at Stanford: writing a critical, argumentative graduate paper; conducting library research; expectations of seminar participation. Readings include Homer, Thucydides, Camus, Mann, Kushner, and sacred, scientific, and historical writings.

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Background/Reference Sources for War

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument.

Encyclopedia of World War II : a political, social and military history / Spencer C. Tucker, editor, Priscilla Mary Roberts, editor volume 5.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, c2005.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » D740 .E516 2005 V.1
Encyclopedia of conflicts since World War II / edited by James Ciment.
2nd ed. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 2007.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » D843 .E46 2007 V.1
World War I : encyclopedia / Spencer C. Tucker, editor : Priscilla Roberts, editor, documents vol. ; Cole C. Kingseed ... [et al.] assistant editors ; foreword by John Eisenhower.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2005.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » D510 .W67 2005 V.1
The Cold War encyclopedia / Thomas Parrish.
1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 1995.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » D840 .P28 1995
World War II [electronic resource] : an encyclopedia of quotations / compiled and edited by Howard J. Langer.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Vietnam war literature : an annotated bibliography of imaginative works about Americans fighting in Vietnam / John Newman ... [et al.].
3rd ed. Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 1996.
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » Z1227 .N49 1996
The Vietnam War : handbook of the literature and research / [edited by] James S. Olson.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1993.
Green » HASRC (Lane Room) (Non-circulating) » DS558 .V58 1993
The Cambridge companion to the literature of the First World War / edited by Vincent Sherry.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Green » Stacks » PN771 .C27 2005
Bibliography on Holocaust literature. Supplement / Abraham J. Edelheit and Hershel Edelheit.
Boulder : Westview Press, 1990-
Green » InfoCenter (Non-circulating) » Z6374 .H6 E33 1986 SUPPL V.1
War and peace in literature : prose, drama, and poetry which illuminate the problem of war / compiled by Lucy Dougall.
Chicago, IL : World Without War Publications, c1982.
Hoover Library » Reference (Non-circulating) » Z6514 .C5 W642 1982
Encyclopedia of American war literature / edited by Philip K. Jason and Mark A. Graves ; associate editors, Robert D. Madison and Michael W. Schaefer.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2001.
Green » HASRC (Lane Room) (Non-circulating) » PS169 .W27 E53 2001

Searchworks Search: "Literature and the War"

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  1. The Trojan War : literature and legends from the Bronze Age to the present

    Diane P. Thompson. 2004

    Green » Stacks » PN56 .T76 T46 2004

  2. Reimagining the war memorial, reinterpreting the Great war : the formats of British commemorative fiction

    by Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż.. 2012

    Green » Stacks » PR478 .W65 S65 2012

  3. The Cambridge companion to the literature of World War II

    edited by Marina MacKay. 2009

    Green » Stacks » PR478 .W67 C36 2009

  4. From Dolly Gray to Sarie Marais : the Boer War in popular memory

    Michael Rice. 2004

    Green » Stacks » PR9362.6 .W3 R53 2004

  5. Armageddon; the world war in literature

    edited by Eugene Löhrke. 1930

    SAL3 » Stacks » 940.93 .L825

  6. The war that killed Achilles : the true story of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War

    Caroline Alexander. 2009

    Green » Stacks » PA4037 .A5955 2009

  7. The embattled self : French soldiers' testimony of the Great War

    Leonard V. Smith. 2007

    Green » Stacks » D640 .A2 S55 2007

Searchworks Search: "War (Philosophy)"

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  1. Theorizing war : from Hobbes to Badiou

    Nick Mansfield. 2008

    Green » Stacks » B105 .W3 M37 2008

  2. War crimes and just war

    Larry May.. 2007

    Green » Stacks » B105 .W3 M39 2007

  3. The war puzzle

    by John A. Vasquez. 1993

    Green » Stacks » B105 .W3 V37 1993 1993

  4. Barbarous philosophers : reflections on the nature of war from Heraclitus to Heisenberg

    Christopher Coker. 2010

    Green » Stacks » B105 .W3 C65 2010

  5. Nietzsche on war [electronic resource]

    Rebekah Peery. 2009

  6. Heidegger and the ideology of war : community, death, and the West

    Domenico Losurdo ; translated by Marella and Jon Morris. 2001

    Green » Stacks » B3279 .H49 L66613 2001

  7. Rousseau and the problem of war

    Christine Jane Carter. 1987

    Green » Stacks » B2138.W37 C37 1987

Suggested Databases

A selected list of databases is available here. The databases listed below are particularly geared toward research in War Literature and philosophy as well as history.

MLA international bibliography [electronic resource].
[New York] : H.W. Wilson, 1987-
Literature online [electronic resource].
[S.l] : Chadwyck-Healey, [1996]-
America, history and life with full text [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Industries,
Historical abstracts with full text [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Pub.
Cambridge histories online [electronic resource].
[Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, ] 2008-