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War and its Narratives: An Introduction to Interdisciplinary Graduate Study

MLA 102 - Spring 2015 - Instructor: Paulson, L.
Last Updated: 25-Feb-2015

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.

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 Library » 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 Library » 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 Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » D510 .W67 2005 V.1
The Cold War encyclopedia / Thomas Parrish.
1st ed. New York : H. Holt, 1995.
Green Library » 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.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
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 Library » 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 Library » Stacks » 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 Library » Stacks » PN771 .C27 2005
Bibliography on Holocaust literature. Supplement / Abraham J. Edelheit and Hershel Edelheit.
Boulder : Westview Press, 1990-
Green Library » 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.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Use restricted to Green Library » PS169 .W27 E53 2001

Searchworks Search: "Literature and the War"

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  1. American Writers and the Approach of World War II, 1935–1941 : A Literary History

    Ichiro Takayoshi. 2015

  2. The epic cycle : a commentary on the lost Troy epics

    M.L. West. 2013

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

    Diane P. Thompson. 2013

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

    Diane P. Thompson. 2004

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

    edited by Marina MacKay. 2009

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

    Michael Rice. 2004

  7. Armageddon; the world war in literature

    edited by Eugene Löhrke. 1930

Searchworks Search: "War (Philosophy)"

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  1. Waging war : a new philosophical introduction

    Ian Clark. 2015

  2. Theorizing war : from Hobbes to Badiou

    Nick Mansfield. 2008

  3. War crimes and just war

    Larry May.. 2007

  4. The war puzzle

    by John A. Vasquez. 1993

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

    Christopher Coker. 2010

  6. Nietzsche on war [electronic resource]

    Rebekah Peery. 2009

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

    Domenico Losurdo ; translated by Marella and Jon Morris. 2001

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-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Literature online [electronic resource].
[S.l] : Chadwyck-Healey, [1996]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
America, history and life with full text [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Industries,
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Historical abstracts with full text [electronic resource].
Ipswich, MA : EBSCO Pub.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Cambridge histories online [electronic resource].
[Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, ] 2008-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)