Description |
viii, 246 pages ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction -- The special relationship and the British hypothesis: The black laurel, The third man, Cold War Vienna and Berlin -- Cold War on the 1930s and sacrificial naming: John Dos Passos and Josephine Herbst -- DEW line, uranium and the Arctic Cold War: Ginsberg's Kaddish and Nabokov's Lolita -- Cold War sex war, or the other being inside: Burroughs, Paley, Plath, Hughes -- The sacrificial logic of the Asian Cold War: Greene's The quiet American and McCarthy's The seventeenth degree -- Conclusion. |
Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Cold War -- Influence.
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Cold War (1945-1989) |
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Cold War in literature.
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Cold War (1945-1989) in literature. |
ISBN |
9780748635276 hardback |
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0748635270 hardback |
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