Disquiet on the Western Front : World War II and Postmodern Fiction (1).

By:

Laurel Brett

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UNKNOWN : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016-09-01 00:00:00.0.Description: 1 online resource (124)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

1443898082
9781443898089

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

DDC classification:

809.39113 23

LOC classification:

PN98.P67

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Summary: This groundbreaking study looks at the evolution of the war novel, tracing the movement from the modernist novel that followed World War I to the postmodernist novel that followed World War II. The book uses close readings of iconic literary texts such as Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five to discover the origins of the postmodern zeitgeist. It concludes that postmodern narratives employing devices such as collage and pastiche and the fragmentation of the postmodern protagonist are a reaction to the vast scale of technological warfare and its accompanying atrocities. This study also looks at Viet.

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This groundbreaking study looks at the evolution of the war novel, tracing the movement from the modernist novel that followed World War I to the postmodernist novel that followed World War II. The book uses close readings of iconic literary texts such as Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five to discover the origins of the postmodern zeitgeist. It concludes that postmodern narratives employing devices such as collage and pastiche and the fragmentation of the postmodern protagonist are a reaction to the vast scale of technological warfare and its accompanying atrocities. This study also looks at Viet.