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Writing after war : American war fiction from realism to postmodernism / John Limon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Limon, John, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War stories, American--History and criticism.
- War stories, American.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
- Postmodernism (Literature).
- Realism--In literature.
- Realism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This treatise develops a theory of the relationship of war in general to literature in general, to make sense of American literary history in particular. "The Iliad", argues the author, inaugurates literary history on the failure of war to be formally beautiful.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; 1. The Art of War: The Contest and the Duel; 2. Swords to Words: Realism and the Civil War; 3. Goddesses on the Battlefield: The Combatant Novels of Tourgée, Cable, and De Forest; 4. Temporal Form and Wartime: Modernism After World War I; 5. The Postmodernization of World War II; 6. Diversions: A Theory of the Vietnam Sports Novel; 7. Family Likenesses: War in Women's Words; Afterword; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1994.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772695-X
- 1-280-44289-1
- 1-4237-3860-8
- 0-19-535859-7
- 1-60129-967-2
- OCLC:
- 475956428
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