| Description |
x, 246 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 233-235. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Holger Klein -- Love and war: R. H. Mottram, The Spanish Farm Trilogy and Ernest Hemingway, a farewell to arms / Michael Garrety -- John Dos Passos' Three Soldiers: esthetics and the doom of individualism / Stanley Cooperman -- The painful process of unthinking: E. E. Cummings' Social Vision in The Enormous Room / Jeffery Walsh -- Henri Barbusse: Le Feu and the crisis if social realism / Jonathan King -- The soldier's stage: Roland Dorgelès, Les Croix de Bois / John Flower -- Drieu la Rochelle: the war as 'Comedy' / Jonathan Dale -- Against nature: Jean Giono and Le Grand Troupeau / W. D. Redfern -- Projections of everyman: the common soldier in Franconi, Wiechert and Williamson / Holger Klein -- Journalism into fiction: Erich Maria Remarque, Im Westen nichts Neues / Brian A. Rowley -- The embattled style: Ernst Jünger, In Stahlgewittern / J. P. Stern -- Humanitarianism and law: Arnold Zweig, Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa / W. G. Sebald -- The last days of Austria: Hašek and Kraus / Robert Pynsent -- Dead man Erect: F. T. Marinetti, L'alcova d'acciaio / Christopher Wagstaff -- Strategies of survival: Robert Graves, Goodbye To All That, and David Hones, In Parenthesis -- The very plain song of it: Frederic Manning, Her Privates We / C. N. Smith -- Richard Aldington and Death of a Hero-or Life of an Anti-hero? / John Morris -- The denuded place: war and form in Parade's End and U.S.A. / Malcolm Bradbury. |
| Subject |
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war.
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World War (1914-1918) |
| Added Author |
Klein, Holger, 1938-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: First World War in fiction. New York : Barnes & Noble, 1977 (OCoLC)568000827 |
| ISBN |
0064937925 : $22.50 |
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9780064937924 |
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