Wallis R. Sanborn

The American Novel of War

A Critical Analysis and Classification System

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780786438631
• ISBN-10: 0786438630
• Artikelnr.: 35687007

Autorenporträt

Wallis R. Sanborn, III, teaches at Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author of Animals in the Fiction of Cormac McCarthy and The American Novel of War. His work has appeared in many publications, including, Gale's Contemporary Literary Criticism, Harold Bloom's Modern Critical Views, The Cormac McCarthy Journal and Southwestern American Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

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