par Eisler, David F.
University of Iowa Press
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Disponible - 821(091) EIS
Niveau 3 - Langues et littératures
Writing Wars : Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present
Résumé
For nearly a century after World War I, there was an assumption that a person—a soldier—must have experienced war in the flesh in order to write about it in fiction. Yet contemporary American fiction tells a different story. Less than half of the authors of contemporary war novels are veterans. And that’s hardly the only change. Today’s war novelists focus on the psychological and moral challenges of soldiers coming home rather than the physical danger of combat overseas. They also imagine the consequences of the wars from non-American perspectives in a way that defies the genre’s conventions.To understand this great shift, David Eisler argues that we must go back nearly fifty years, to the political decision to abolish the draft. The ramifications rippled into the field of cultural production, transforming the foundational characteristics— authorship, content, and form—of the American war fiction genre.
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Date
- 2022
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Langues
- Anglais
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Description matérielle
- 1 vol.(253 p. ; 25 cm
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ISBN
- 978-1609388652
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Indice
- 821(091) Littérature américaine. Histoire
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Origine de la notice:
- BPI
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Disponible - 821(091) EIS
Niveau 3 - Langues et littératures
