“What it felt like”: Memory and the Sensations of War in Vergil’s Aeneid and Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds
The Nisus and Euryalus episode in the ninth book of Vergil’s Aeneid and Kevin Powers’ 2012 novel The Yellow Birds on a soldier’s experiences in the year 2004 during the American War in Iraq are both constructed around a very similar story pattern of two friends who go to war together and are faced w...
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Universität Potsdam
2017-04-01
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| Series: | thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date |
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| Online Access: | https://www.thersites-journal.de/index.php/thr/article/view/37 |