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Writing After War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism
Writing After War American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism
Author: John Limon
In Writing After War, John Limon develops a theory of the relationship of war in general to literature in general, in order to make sense of American literary history in particular. Applying the work of war theorists Carl von Clausewitz and Elaine Scarry, John Limon argues that The Iliad inaugurates Western literature on the failure of war to be...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195087581
ISBN-10: 0195087585
Publication Date: 7/7/1994
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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