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War (Eksamensstof)
We will be working with the impact of the war experience on the soldiers. We will be working with World war one, The Vietnam War, The Afghan war and The Iraq War.
Focus is on:
The way poetry changed during WW1
How story truth can be truer than happening truth (Vietnam war)
How language can be the outlet of the experience of war (the Iraq war)
Content:
• Thomas Augustine Arne, ”Rule Britannia” – National Anthem, 1740
• Rupert Brook, “The Soldier”, 1914 (WW1)
• Siegfried Sassoon, “The Hero”, 1917 (WW1)
• Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”, 1917? 1920 (WW1)
• John Singer Sargent RA, “Gassed”, 1919 from “Art from The First World War”, The Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, (2008) 2014
• Gilles MacKinnon (dir), ”Regeneration”, 1997 (WW1)
• Tim O’Brien, “Ambush” from “The Things They Carried”, 1990 (The Vietnam War)
• Tim O’Brien, “Good Form” from “The Things They Carried”, 1990 (The Vietnam War)
• Bao Ninh, “The Jungle of Screaming Souls”, 1991 (The Vietnam War)
• Dir. Randell Wallace, “We Were Soldiers”, 2002 (The Vietnam War)
• George W. Bush – Speech on the war in Afghanistan, October 7th 2001
• Evan Wright, “Generation Kill”, 2004 (The Iraq War)
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