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Achilles in Vietnam : combat trauma and the undoing of character

Author: Jonathan Shay
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Edition/Format: Book : English : 1st Touchstone edView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Homer.; Homer.; Homer.
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jonathan Shay
ISBN: 0684813211 : 9780684813219
OCLC Number: 33402762
Notes: Originally published: 1994. "A Touchstone book."
Description: xxiii, 246 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: PART I: Betrayal of "What's right" -- Shrinkage of the social and moral horizon -- Grief at the death of a special comrade -- Guilt and wrongful substitution -- Berserk -- PART II: Dishonoring the enemy -- What Homer left out -- Soldiers' luck and God's will -- Reclaiming the Iliad's gods as a metaphor of social power -- PART III: The breaking points of moral existence: what breaks? -- Healing and tragedy -- Conclusion.
Responsibility: Jonathan Shay.

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