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English Language and Literature

Southwestern Oklahoma State University

2012

Eddison, E.R.—Views on war

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The centrality of service to the goddess of love in E.R. Eddison’s conceptions of heroism and the properly lived life is the focus of this study of the Zimiamvia trilogy. Eddison considered his work an important response to World War II and a call for a more meaningful type of courage and way of living both during and after the war.

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