James A. W. Heffernan (USA Dartmouth College)

Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II

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Produktbeschreibung

"The first comprehensive study of how the outbreak of the Second World War shaped the literary work of American, English, and European writers during the first years of the war, before its outcome was known, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of the Second World War ignited the imaginations of writers ranging from Ernest Hemingway, W.H. Auden, and James Joyce to Bertolt Brecht, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green, and Iráene Nâemirovsky"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9781350474802
• ISBN-10: 1350474800
• Artikelnr.: 69921848

Autorenporträt

James A. W. Heffernan

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: History and Literature
1. Hitler, FDR, and the Partisan Review in 1939
2. The Spanish Civil War and Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
3. Prague after Munich: The Plight of Refugees in Martha Gellhorn's A
Stricken Field
4. Jan Karski, Patrick Hamilton, and W.H. Auden: Variations on September 1,
1939:
5. Bertolt Brecht, The Svendborg Poems-with a Side Glance at
James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
6. The Invasion of Poland and Brecht's Mother Courage
7. The Phony War and Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags
8. Exodus and Occupation in Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française
9. War, Fire, and Sex: The London Blitz in Henry Green's Caught
Epilogue