Writing war in the twentieth century / Margot Norris

Publication | Library Call Number: PN56.W3 N67 2000

Variant Title: Writing war in the 20th century
Series: Cultural frames, framing culture
Cultural frames, framing culture.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Norris, Margot.
Published: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2000
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-286) and index
Language: English

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.
Subjects: War in literature.
War and literature.
Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
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