Allegories of Violence: Tracing the Writings of War in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction Contributor(s): Yuknavitch, Lidia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415936373 ISBN-13: 9780415936378 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2001 Annotation: This work demilitarizes the concept of war and asks what would happen if war was understood as discursive via late twentieth-century novels of war. In particular, this book seeks to revise common perceptions of war, postmoderism, and the novel by asking how they form, deform, and reform one another. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: 813.509 |
LCCN: 2001016010 |
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory: The Interaction of T |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.86 lbs) 148 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: Allegories of Violence demilitarizes the concept of war and asks what would happen if we understood war as discursive via late 20th Century novels of war. |