Physical Description
xi, 300 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Writing war in the twentieth century: an introduction
The trace of the trenches: revisiting modernism and World War I
The novel as war: lies and truth in Hemingway's A farewell to arms
The novel of depopulation: Remarque's All quiet on the western front
Unmaking and remaking a world: Thomas Keneally's book and Steven Spielberg's film of Schindler's list
Dividing the indivisible: the fissured story of the Manhattan Project
Writing the apocalypse of Hiroshima
Modernism and Vietnam: Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse now
Only the guns have eyes: military censorship and the body count in the Persian Gulf War.
ISBN
0813919916
0813919924 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-286) and index.
Writing war in the twentieth century: an introduction -- The trace of the trenches: revisiting modernism and World War I -- The novel as war: lies and truth in Hemingway's A farewell to arms -- The novel of depopulation: Remarque's All quiet on the western front -- Unmaking and remaking a world: Thomas Keneally's book and Steven Spielberg's film of Schindler's list -- Dividing the indivisible: the fissured story of the Manhattan Project -- Writing the apocalypse of Hiroshima -- Modernism and Vietnam: Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse now -- Only the guns have eyes: military censorship and the body count in the Persian Gulf War.
