LEADER 02813nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910811905803321 005 20240509112327.0 010 $a1-282-82203-9 010 $a9786612822032 010 $a1-4411-3835-8 010 $a1-4411-7862-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000047860 035 $a(EBL)592460 035 $a(OCoLC)670412149 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000425612 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11322973 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000425612 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10368102 035 $a(PQKB)10672241 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC592460 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL592460 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10422385 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL282203 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000047860 100 $a20101113d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe political novel $ere-imagining the twentieth century /$fStuart A. Scheingold 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York, N.Y. $cContinuum$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4411-4807-8 311 $a1-4411-7639-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [251]-256) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 330 $aScholars 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 606 $aPolitical fiction$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPolitics and literature 615 0$aPolitical fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPolitics and literature. 676 $a809.3 700 $aScheingold$b Stuart A$0247466 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811905803321 996 $aThe political novel$94004196 997 $aUNINA