03063nam 22007573u 450 991081226040332120230421042428.00-19-772695-X1-280-44289-11-4237-3860-80-19-535859-71-60129-967-210.1093/oso/9780195087581.001.0001(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(OCoLC)1406784668(StDuBDS)9780197726952(EXLCZ)99100000000002872319940905e20231994 uy |engur|n|---|||||txtccrWriting after war American war fiction from realism to postmodernism /John Limon[electronic resource]New York ;Oxford University Press,2023.1 online resource (266 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 1994.0-19-508758-5 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; IndexThis treatise develops a theory of the relationship of war in general to literature in general, to make sense of American literary history in particular. "The Iliad", argues the author, inaugurates literary history on the failure of war to be formally beautiful.Oxford scholarship online.War stories, AmericanHistory and criticismAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismPostmodernism (Literature)United StatesRealismIn literatureWar stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.American fictionHistory and criticism.Postmodernism (Literature)RealismIn literature.813.009/358Limon John1607301UkUkStDuBDSZStDuBDSZBOOK9910812260403321Writing after war4114797UNINA