The literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam / Adam Piette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Piette, Adam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Cold War--Influence.

Cold War.

Cold War in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This is a ground-breaking study of the psychological and cultural impact of the Cold War on the imaginations of citizens in the UK and US.

Contents:

Introduction

The special relationship and the British hypothesis: The black laurel, The third man, Cold War Vienna and Berlin

Cold War on the 1930s and sacrificial naming: John Dos Passos and Josephine Herbst

DEW line, uranium and the Arctic Cold War: Ginsberg's Kaddish and Nabokov's Lolita

Cold War sex war, or the other being inside: Burroughs, Paley, Plath, Hughes

The sacrificial logic of the Asian Cold War: Greene's The quiet American and McCarthy's The seventeenth degree

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5177-2

1-282-13654-2

9786612136542

0-7486-3528-9

OCLC:

430835438