This tutorial considers literary representations of war, with emphasis on wars fought by Europe and the U.S. from the nineteenth century to the present: the Napoleonic Wars, the Crimean War, the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Vietnam War, and the War on Terror. Despite this contemporary focus, we begin our readings with Homer's Iliad, as the foundational text for exploring the relationships among warfare, representation and cultural memory in the West. Topics to be explored throughout the semester include: the textualization of violence (including psychoanalytical approaches to the writing of trauma), the place of war in national imaginaries (including the cultural, political, and spiritual functions that memorials to the war dead perform), the ethics of representing violence and suffering from various perspectives and degrees of direct participation, the ideology of military mobilization and the cultural changes it produces, and the implications of war for gendered relationships, including sexual violence and the sexualization of violence. Readings may include the work of Homer, Stendhal, Tolstoy, Conrad, Roa Bastos, Woolf,Greene, Heller, and Sontag. All readings in English. Format: tutorial. Requirements: weekly tutorial papers and oral responses. Prerequisites: one 100-level Comparative Literature or English course, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limit: 10 (expected: 10). This course is writing intensive. (Cultural Studies)