Writing after War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism - ISBN:0195087593

Writing after War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism

Date: 23 May 2011, 05:39

Free register and download UseNet downloader, then you can FREE Download from UseNet.

Download without Limit " Writing after War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism " from UseNet for FREE!

Product Description: 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 modernism, usually assumed to be a prediction or result of the Great War, up to postmodernism which followed World War II and spanned Vietnam, Limon argues that, despite the looming presence of war in American history, the techniques that define these periods are essentially ways of not writing war.
From James and Twain, through Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and even Hemingway, to Pynchon, our national literary history is not hopelessly masculinist, Limon argues. Instead, it arrives naturally at Bobbie Ann Mason and Maxine Hong Kingston. Kingston brings the discussion full circle: The Woman Warrior, like The Iliad, appears to condemn the fall from duel to war that is literature's endless opening.

Download Links:

Download Link (High Speed Download)

Download Link 1 (http://www.filesonic.com/...889496644)

Download Link 2 (http://depositfiles.com/...fcxqdf9xb)

DISCLAIMER:

This site does not store Writing after War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism on its server. We only index and link to Writing after War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete Writing after War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.