The political novel [[electronic resource] ] : re-imagining the twentieth century / / Stuart A. Scheingold

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811905803321
• Autore: Scheingold Stuart A
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, N.Y., : Continuum, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-82203-9; 9786612822032; 1-4411-3835-8; 1-4411-7862-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.3
• Soggetti: Political fiction - History and criticism; Politics and literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-256) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; 1 Novels of Political Estrangement: Subversion of Agency in the Twentieth Century; 2 Anti-War Novels in the Twentieth Century: The Road to Late Modernity; 3 The Alchemy of Catastrophe: Seeking Spiritual Solace in the Ashes of the Holocaust; 4 Aftermath of Disaster: The Nazi Legacy; 5 The Contradictions of Democracy: Political Estrangement in the U.S. and the U.K.; 6 Re-imagining the Twentieth Century, Remembering the Twenty-First; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Scholars from a variety of academic disciplines have been drawn into exhaustive analyses of what went wrong in "the terrible 20th Century", as Winston Churchill dubbed it. In this book Scheingold adds political novels to those inquiries and argues that they make a distinctive and hitherto neglected contribution to the collective memory of the 20th Century. These fictional accounts are the work of some of the century's most celebrated novelists: Kafka, Heller, Boll, Grass, Vonnegut and others. As refracted through the literary imagination, the "terrible" 20th Century takes on new meaning