Writing war in the twentieth century
An examination of why the immense violence and suffering in the 20th century failed to arouse artistic and cultural expressions powerful enough to prevent their recurrence. By looking at the whole span of the century's writing on war, it provides a critique of art's ethical limitations.
Print Book, English, 2000
University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2000
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 300 pages ; 24 cm.
9780813919911, 9780813919928, 0813919916, 0813919924
44045556
Writing war in the twentieth century: an introduction
The trace of the trenches: revisiting modernism and World War I
The novel as war: lies and truth in Hemingway's A farewell to arms
The novel of depopulation: Remarque's All quiet on the western front
Unmaking and remaking a world: Thomas Keneally's book and Steven Spielberg's film of Schindler's list
Dividing the indivisible: the fissured story of the Manhattan Project
Writing the apocalypse of Hiroshima
Modernism and Vietnam: Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse now
Only the guns have eyes: military censorship and the body count in the Persian Gulf War