03219nam 2200697 450 991078336420332120230421042428.00-19-772695-X1-280-44289-11-4237-3860-80-19-535859-71-60129-967-2(CKB)1000000000028723(EBL)241367(OCoLC)475956428(SSID)ssj0000275173(PQKBManifestationID)11254754(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000275173(PQKBWorkID)10341111(PQKB)11705238(Au-PeEL)EBL4702199(CaPaEBR)ebr11273457(CaONFJC)MIL44289(OCoLC)191935545(MiAaPQ)EBC4702199(EXLCZ)99100000000002872320161012h19941994 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWriting after war American war fiction from realism to postmodernism /John LimonNew York, New York ;Oxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,1994.©19941 online resource (266 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-508758-5 0-19-508759-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexIn 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 justification. American literary history is demarcated by wars, as if literary epochs, like the history of literature itself, required bloodshed to commence. But in chapters on periodsWar stories, AmericanHistory and criticismAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismPostmodernism (Literature)United StatesRealism in literatureWar stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Postmodernism (Literature)Realism in literature.813.009/358Limon John1516271MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783364203321Writing after war3846938UNINA