The Mythology of World War II with Elizabeth Samet
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The Mythology of the War
CNN's John Sutter talks with a literary scholar about his theory of two genres. He says the epic freezes things in the past and makes them untouchable. In World War II, "all the heroes are larger than life," he says. The idea that internal divisions went away as we looked at an external enemy is actually not true., writes Sutter.
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