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Achilles in Vietnam : combat trauma and the undoing of character
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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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