02813nam 2200601 a 450 991081190580332120240509112327.01-282-82203-997866128220321-4411-3835-81-4411-7862-7(CKB)2670000000047860(EBL)592460(OCoLC)670412149(SSID)ssj0000425612(PQKBManifestationID)11322973(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000425612(PQKBWorkID)10368102(PQKB)10672241(MiAaPQ)EBC592460(Au-PeEL)EBL592460(CaPaEBR)ebr10422385(CaONFJC)MIL282203(EXLCZ)99267000000004786020101113d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe political novel re-imagining the twentieth century /Stuart A. Scheingold1st ed.New York, N.Y. Continuum20101 online resource (271 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4411-4807-8 1-4411-7639-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-256) and index.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; IndexScholars 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 meaningPolitical fictionHistory and criticismPolitics and literaturePolitical fictionHistory and criticism.Politics and literature.809.3Scheingold Stuart A247466MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811905803321The political novel4004196UNINA