| The Nightmare Considered: Critical Essays on Nuclear War Literature Contributor(s): Anisfield, Nancy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0879725303 ISBN-13: 9780879725303 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - Nuclear Warfare - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 91-072619 |
| Lexile Measure: 1350 |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.66 lbs) 210 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These essays assess the nature of nuclear war literature from a variety of perspectives. Scholars, activists, novelists, poets, and teachers challenge nuclear ideologies and traditional readings of apocalyptic texts. Included: Holocaust literature of the 1950s, Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich, poetry and nuclear war, Riddley Walker, Fiskadoro, haiku and Hiroshima, Kopit's End of the World, O'Brien's The Nuclear Age, and Vonnegut's cataclysmic novels. |