Veteran Poetics

Kate McLoughlin is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011) (a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to War Writing (2009).  She is also the co-founding director of WAR-Net. In 2016, she gave the Remembrance Day address in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge; she has also given lectures at the National Army Museum and the National Memorial Arboretum.

• 1. Life times; 2. Strangers; 3. Problem-solving; 4. Telling tales; 5. The end of the story.

'McLoughlin's framework in this ambitiously [wide-ranging] book combines literary theory and moral philosophy, weaving together the works of Walter Benjamin, Judith Butler, Immanuel Kant, [Gayatri] Chakravorty Spivak and others to consider what she terms our collective 'triplethink' which labels the veteran victim, hero and delinquent.' Helena Goodwyn, The Times Literary Supplement