Writing After War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism

by John Limon

Book Overview

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 duel-like, to have a beautiful form. War's failure is literature's justification.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195087593
• ISBN13: 9780195087598
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"