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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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