The American novel of war : a critical analysis and classification system

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    • Sanborn, Wallis R.

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The American novel of war : a critical analysis and classification system

Wallis R. Sanborn, III

McFarland, c2012

  • : softcover

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Summary: "This work establishes the American Novel of War as its own sub-genre within the greater American Literature of War genre. Each chapter identifies a defining characteristic, analyzes existing criticism, and explores the characteristic in American war novels of record. Topics include violence, war rhetoric, the death of noncombatants, and terrain as an enemy"--Provided by publisher

Bibliography: p. 223-228

Includes index

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内容説明

In song, verse, narrative, and dramatic form, war literature has existed for nearly all of recorded history. Accounts of war continue to occupy American bestseller lists and the stacks of American libraries. This innovative work establishes the American novel of war as its own sub-genre within American war literature, creating standards by which such works can be classified and critically and popularly analyzed. Each chapter identifies a defining characteristic, analyzes existing criticism, and explores the characteristic in American war novels of record. Topics include violence, war rhetoric, the death of noncombatants, and terrain as an enemy.

目次

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      viii Introduction      1. The Defining Characteristics of the American Novel of War as Found in American Poems, Short Stories, Dramas, and Memoirs of War      2. War as Central Action      3. The Violence of War      4. The Rhetoric of War      5. The Equipage of War      6. Death of Fighting Peers      7. Death of Noncombatants      8. Omnipresent Death and Destruction      9. Displacement of Locals to Refugees      10. The Oppositional Dyad Between Occupying/Invading Forces and Indigenous/Local Peoples      11. The Oppositional Dyad Between Officers and Enlisted Men      12. The Terrain/Weather as Enemy      13. The Burning/Fire Motif      14. Prostitution      15. Absurdity of War      Epilogue      Bibliography      Index     

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