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UNINA9910454568903321 |
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Autore |
Piette Adam |
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Titolo |
The literary Cold War, 1945-Vietnam / / Adam Piette [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-7486-5177-2 |
1-282-13654-2 |
9786612136542 |
0-7486-3528-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Cold War - Influence |
Cold War in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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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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Introduction -- The special relationship and the British hypothesis: The black laurel, The third man, Cold War Vienna and Berlin -- Cold War on the 1930s and sacrificial naming: John Dos Passos and Josephine Herbst -- DEW line, uranium and the Arctic Cold War: Ginsberg's Kaddish and Nabokov's Lolita -- Cold War sex war, or the other being inside: Burroughs, Paley, Plath, Hughes -- The sacrificial logic of the Asian Cold War: Greene's The quiet American and McCarthy's The seventeenth degree -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This is a ground-breaking study of the psychological and cultural impact of the Cold War on the imaginations of citizens in the UK and US. |
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