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Limon John |
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Titolo |
Writing after war : American war fiction from realism to postmodernism / / John Limon |
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New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1994 |
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©1994 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-44289-1 |
1-4237-3860-8 |
0-19-535859-7 |
1-60129-967-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (266 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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War stories, American - History and criticism |
American fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism |
Postmodernism (Literature) - United States |
Realism in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; 1. The Art of War: The Contest and the Duel; 2. Swords to Words: Realism and the Civil War; 3. Goddesses on the Battlefield: The Combatant Novels of Tourgée, Cable, and De Forest; 4. Temporal Form and Wartime: Modernism After World War I; 5. The Postmodernization of World War II; 6. Diversions: A Theory of the Vietnam Sports Novel; 7. Family Likenesses: War in Women's Words; Afterword; Notes; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Writing After War, John Limon develops a theory of the relationship of war in general to literature in general, in order to make sense of American literary history in particular. Applying the work of war theorists Carl von Clausewitz and Elaine Scarry, John Limon argues that The Iliad inaugurates Western literature on the failure of war to be duel-like, to have a beautiful form. War's failure is literature's |
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