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Prestige of Violence : American Fiction, 1962-2007.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (183 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780820341354
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Prestige of ViolenceDDC classification:
  • 813/.5209
LOC classification:
  • PS374.V58 -- B33 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. The Prestige of Violence: American Fiction, 1962-2007 -- ONE. Zembla in the New York Times: Pale Fire's Historical Violence -- TWO. Monks and "the Mind of Watts": Vietnam in The Crying of Lot 49 -- THREE. Americanizing Vietnam in Mailer's: The Armies of the Night -- FOUR. Veterans of Sex: Feminist Fiction and the Rise of PTSD -- FIVE. "Words generally only spoil things": Fantasy, Testimony, and Trauma in the Work of Philip Roth -- SIX. "The hammers striking the page": Don DeLillo and the Violent Politics of Language -- AFTERWORD. After the Aftermath: American Fiction since 2007 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. The Prestige of Violence: American Fiction, 1962-2007 -- ONE. Zembla in the New York Times: Pale Fire's Historical Violence -- TWO. Monks and "the Mind of Watts": Vietnam in The Crying of Lot 49 -- THREE. Americanizing Vietnam in Mailer's: The Armies of the Night -- FOUR. Veterans of Sex: Feminist Fiction and the Rise of PTSD -- FIVE. "Words generally only spoil things": Fantasy, Testimony, and Trauma in the Work of Philip Roth -- SIX. "The hammers striking the page": Don DeLillo and the Violent Politics of Language -- AFTERWORD. After the Aftermath: American Fiction since 2007 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

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