Writing after War American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism

Name: Writing after War American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism
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ISBN: 9780195087598

ISBN-10: 0195087593

ISBN-13: 9780195087598

Edition: 1994

Authors: John Limon

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In Writing After War, John Limon develops a theory of the relationship of war in general to literature in general, in order to make sense of American literary history in particular. Applying the work of war theorists Carl von Clausewitz and Elaine Scarry, John Limon argues that The Iliad inaugurates Western literature on the failure of war to be duel-like, to have a beautiful form. War's failure is literature's justification. American literary history is demarcated by wars, as if literary epochs, like the history of literature itself, required bloodshed to commence. But in chapters on periods of literary history from realism, generally taken to be a product of the Civil War, through…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/7/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.17" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Introduction



The Art of War: The Contest and the Duel



Swords to Words: Realism and the Civil War



Goddesses on the Battlefield: The Combatant Novels of Tourgee, Cable, and De Forest



Temporal Form and Wartime: Modernism After World War I



The Postmodernization of World War II



Diversions: A Theory of the Vietnam Sports Novel


Play, Part I


Sports


Tennis, Baseball


Basketball


Football, the Hunt


Play, Part II



Family Likenesses: War in Women's Words


The Civil War and Reality


World War I and Modern Beauty


Media and Immediate Wars


Afterword


Notes


Index