The secret war : treason, espionage, and modern fiction / Eva Horn ; translated from the German by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horn, Eva.

Contributor:

Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey, 1960-

Standardized Title:

Geheime Krieg. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Spy stories, English--History and criticism.

Spy stories, English.

Spy stories, German--History and criticism.

Spy stories, German.

Espionage in literature.

Spies in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 413 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013.

Contents:

Translating betrayal: signpost for the secret war / Geoffrey Winthrop-Young

Introduction: treason, secrets, and fiction

Part 1. Borges: a Poetics of Treason

Part 2. Treason and Secrecy in the Modern Age: Chapter 1. The age of treason; Chapter 2. Logics of political secrecy; Chapter 3. Secret intelligence

Part 3. The Great Game: Chapter 1. Strategic space; Chapter 2. Local knowledge; Chapter 3. The partisan, the traitor

Part 4. Spies, Male and Female: The First World War and the War of the Sexes: Chapter 1. The female spy as hysteric; Chapter 2. In her place: the female secretary

Part 5. Agents of the World Revolution: Chapter 1. "Bertolt Brecht, minstrel of the GPU"

Part 6. Cold War: Chapter 1. War and peace; Chapter 2. War games: war as hypothesis; Chapter 3. The human factor

Part 7. State Paranoia

Part 8. Invisible Government: JFK

Part 9. After 9/11: Chapter 1. The light of the phantasm; Chapter 2. The future of enmity: nets, swarms, viruses

Conclusion.

Notes:

"Originally published in German as Der geheime Krieg: Verrat, Spionage und moderne Fiktion in 2007 by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-400) and index.

ISBN:

9780810127630

0810127636

OCLC:

822995172