03679nam 2200697 a 450 991077755460332120230617005417.01-58729-487-7(CKB)1000000000459803(EBL)843163(OCoLC)66385981(SSID)ssj0000248358(PQKBManifestationID)11188555(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000248358(PQKBWorkID)10201918(PQKB)10680549(MiAaPQ)EBC843163(MdBmJHUP)muse9311(Au-PeEL)EBL843163(CaPaEBR)ebr10354476(EXLCZ)99100000000045980320031126d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSoldiers once and still[electronic resource] Ernest Hemingway, James Salter & Tim O'Brien /Alex VernonIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20041 online resource (329 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-886-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-308) and index.Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1: Reading American War Literature, Reading Ernest Hemingway; 1.ReadingTwentieth-Century American War Literature; 2. War, Gender, and Ernest Hemingway; Part 2. Reading James Salter; 3. James Salter Biographic and Cultural Context; 4. The Hemingway Influence and the Very Modern _A Sport and a Pastime_; 5. From Flying to Writing; 6. Death, Desire, and the Homosocial; Part 3: Reading Tim O'Brien; 7. O'Brien's Literary Project; 8. Submission and Resistance to the Self as Soldier: Tim O'Brien's War Memoir9. Salvation, Storytelling, and Pilgrimage in _The Things They Carried_10. O'Brien's War, O'Brien's Women; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; IndexAs the world enters a new century, as it embarks on new wars and sees new developments in the waging of war, reconsiderations of the last century's legacy of warfare are necessary to our understanding of the current world order. In Soldiers Once and Still, Alex Vernon looks back through the twentieth century in order to confront issues of self and community in veterans' literature, exploring how war and the military have shaped the identities of Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien, three of the twentieth century's most respected authors. Vernon specifically explores the various wayWar stories, AmericanHistory and criticismWar and literatureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican literature20th centuryHistory and criticismSoldiers' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismVeterans' writings, AmericanHistory and criticismSoldiersUnited StatesIntellectual lifeVeteransUnited StatesIntellectual lifeWar in literatureWar stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.War and literatureHistoryAmerican literatureHistory and criticism.Soldiers' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.Veterans' writings, AmericanHistory and criticism.SoldiersIntellectual life.VeteransIntellectual life.War in literature.813/.509358Vernon Alex1967-1559315MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777554603321Soldiers once and still3824303UNINA