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The gun and the pen : Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and the fiction of mobilization / Keith Gandal.
LIBRA PS374.W65 G36 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gandal, Keith.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- World War, 1914-1918--United States--Literature and the war.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- War and society--United States--History--20th century.
- War and society.
- Armed Forces.
- History.
- United States--Armed Forces--Mobilization--History.
- United States.
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940. Great Gatsby.
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott.
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961. Sun also rises.
- Hemingway, Ernest.
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Sound and the fury.
- Faulkner, William.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- 1 Rethinking Post-World War I Classics: Recovering the Historical Context of the Mobilization 3
- 2 Methodology and the Study of Modernist Fiction 45
- Part II Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, and the 1920s
- 3 The Great Gatsby and the Great War Army: Ethnic Egalitarianism, Intelligence Testing, the New Man, and the Charity Girl 77
- 4 The Sun Also Rises and "Mobilization Wounds": Emasculation, Joke Fronts, Military School Wannabes, and Postwar Jewish Quotas 123
- 5 The Sound and the Fury and Military Rejects: The Feebleminded and the Postmobilization Erotic Triangle 151
- 6 Postmobilization Romance: Transforming Military Rejection into Modernist Tragedy and Symbolism 167
- Part III The 1930s and After
- 7 Postmobilization Kinkiness: Barnes, West, Miller, and the Military's Frankness about Sex and Venereal Disease 185
- 8 The Sound and the Fury Redux and the End of the World War I Mobilization Novel 199
- Afterword: Here We Go Again: World War II Mobilization Blues in William Burroughs's Junky 213.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-254) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195338911
- 019533891X
- OCLC:
- 173480545
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