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6 All This Happened, or, The Real Waugh: Sword of Honour and the Literature of the Second World War
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Figures viii
- Acknowledgements x
- Introduction: Out of the Marvellous, or, Scholarship and the Magic Arts 1
- 1 The Artist and the Terrorist, or, The Paintable and the Unpaintable: Gerhard Richter and the Baader-Meinhof Group 8
- 2 The Face, or, Senseless Kindness: War Photography and the Ethics of Responsibility 33
- 3 Provenance, or, Authenticity: The Guitar Player and the Arc of a Life 58
- 4 Broomstick Horrors, or, The Fog-Walker in the Wood: Keeping up Appearances in the Great War 76
- 5 The Strategy of Still Life, or, Art and Current Affairs: Georges Braque and the Occupation 100
- 6 All This Happened, or, The Real Waugh: Sword of Honour and the Literature of the Second World War 125
- 7 The Secret Life, or, The Soldier’s Tale: Diaries and Diary-Keeping in War 146
- 8 Like a Dog, or, Animal House on the Night Shift: Kafka and Abu Ghraib 172
- 9 It’s All Fucked Up, or, The Non-Fiction Horror Movie: The Cinema and the War on Terror 197
- 10 Waiting for the Barbarians, or, The Hospitality of War: Civilisation and Barbarism in the War on Terror 218
- Index 237
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Figures viii
- Acknowledgements x
- Introduction: Out of the Marvellous, or, Scholarship and the Magic Arts 1
- 1 The Artist and the Terrorist, or, The Paintable and the Unpaintable: Gerhard Richter and the Baader-Meinhof Group 8
- 2 The Face, or, Senseless Kindness: War Photography and the Ethics of Responsibility 33
- 3 Provenance, or, Authenticity: The Guitar Player and the Arc of a Life 58
- 4 Broomstick Horrors, or, The Fog-Walker in the Wood: Keeping up Appearances in the Great War 76
- 5 The Strategy of Still Life, or, Art and Current Affairs: Georges Braque and the Occupation 100
- 6 All This Happened, or, The Real Waugh: Sword of Honour and the Literature of the Second World War 125
- 7 The Secret Life, or, The Soldier’s Tale: Diaries and Diary-Keeping in War 146
- 8 Like a Dog, or, Animal House on the Night Shift: Kafka and Abu Ghraib 172
- 9 It’s All Fucked Up, or, The Non-Fiction Horror Movie: The Cinema and the War on Terror 197
- 10 Waiting for the Barbarians, or, The Hospitality of War: Civilisation and Barbarism in the War on Terror 218
- Index 237