Death as Device: For a Lost Soldier in the Classical Traditi
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Michael Matthew Kaylor
Death as Device: For a Lost Soldier in the Classical Tradition
Greco-Roman iconography abounds in imagery of the dying youth, whether
his death was initiatory (the boy reborn into the man) or tragic (the
boy not fated to live into adulthood). Such imagery was profoundly
martial and pedagogical, and nostalgic for the transitory. In the Dutch
film For a Lost Soldier
(1994), directed by Roeland Kerbosch, such iconography is inverted
through tracing it from the boy’s coming-of-age perspective, with the
departure of the Canadian soldier serving to validate why the death of
the character, even if it is only symbolic, is a vital aesthetic device.
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