Vonnegut and Hemingway : writers at war / Lawrence R. Broer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broer, Lawrence R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vonnegut, Kurt--Criticism and interpretation.

Vonnegut, Kurt.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Criticism and interpretation.

Hemingway, Ernest.

War and literature--United States--History--20th century.

War and literature.

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

American fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Against this onslaught, he asserts, they wrote as a mode of therapy and achieved literary greatness through combative opposition to the shadows that loomed so large around them.

Contents:

Family secrets: the absent mother and father

Hemingway's sun, Vonnegut's night: the spoils of war

Duty dance with death: A farewell to arms and Slaughterhouse-five

Spiritual manifestos: Breakfast of champions, Death in the afternoon, and Green hills of Africa

From Jailbird to canary bird: To have and have not and Jailbird

Anima and animus in For whom the bell tolls and Slapstick

A soldier's confessions: Across the river and into the trees and Hocus pocus

Now it's women's turn: The rescue of Eurydice

A literary farewell: Timequake and Under kilimanjaro.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613809407

9781282166332

1282166336

9781611171099

1611171091

OCLC:

808381428