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" The gun and the pen : "
Keith Gandal.
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BL
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972202
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b726572
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Gandal, Keith.
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The gun and the pen : : Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and the fiction of mobilization /\ Keith Gandal.
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2008.
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xii, 271 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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019533891X
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: 0199867127
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: 9780195338911
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: 9780199867127
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-254) and index.
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| Contents
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Rethinking post-World War I classics: recovering the historical context of the mobilization -- Methodology and the study of modernist fiction -- The Great Gatsby and the great war army: ethnic egalitarianism, intelligence testing, the new man, and the charity girl -- The Sun also rises and "mobilization wounds": emasculation, joke fronts, military school wannabes, and postwar Jewish quotas -- The sound and the fury and military rejects: the feebleminded and the postmobilization erotic triangle -- Postmobilization romance: transforming military rejection into modernist tragedy and symbolism -- Postmobilization kinkiness: Barnes, West, Miller, and the military's frankness about sex and venereal disease -- The sound and the fury redux and the end of the World War I mobilization novel.
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"In this work of literary and historical scholarship, Keith Gandal shows that Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner were motivated, in their famous postwar novels, not by their experiences of the horrors of war but rather by their failure to have those experiences." "These "quintessential" male American novelists of the 1920s were all, for different reasons, deemed unsuitable as candidates for full military service or command. As a result, Gandal contends, they felt themselves emasculated - not, as the usual story goes, due to their encounters with trench warfare, but because they got nowhere near the trenches or the real action. By bringing to light previously unexamined archival records from the U.S. Army, The Gun and the Pen demonstrates that the frustration of these authors' military ambitions took place in the forgotten context of a whole new set of methods employed in the mobilization for the Great War - unprecedented procedures that aimed to transform the Army into a meritocratic institution, indifferent to ethnic and class difference (though not to racial difference). For these Lost Generation writers, the humiliating failure vis-a-vis the U.S. Army became a failure to compete successfully in a rising social order and against a new set of people."--Jacket.
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Faulkner, William,1897-1962., Sound and the fury.
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott, (Francis Scott),1896-1940., Great Gatsby.
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Hemingway, Ernest,1899-1961., Sun also rises.
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Faulkner, William (1897-1962)., Sound and the fury.
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Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
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Faulkner, William.
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1896-1940
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Fitzgerald, Francis Scott (1896-1940)., Great Gatsby.
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Fitzgerald, Francis Scott.
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Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)., Sun also rises.
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
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Hemingway, Ernest.
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Centro para la Promoción de la Conservación del Suelo y del Agua, Buenos Aires
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Literature)-- United States.
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War and society-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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World War, 1914-1918-- United States-- Literature and the war.
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American fiction.
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Armed Forces-- Mobilization.
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Första världskriget 1914-1918-- och litteraturen-- Förenta stateran.
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Guerre mondiale (1914-1918)-- États-Unis-- Littérature et guerre.
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Mobilmachung
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Modernism (Literature)
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Roman américain-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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War and literature.
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War and society.
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Weltkrieg
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Weltkrieg
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Prosa.
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Eerste Wereldoorlog.
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Mobilisatie.
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Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald, F. Scott)
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Sound and the fury (Faulkner, William)
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Sun also rises (Hemingway, Ernest)
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United States, Armed Forces, Mobilization, History.
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États-Unis, Forces armées.
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United States.
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USA.
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Verenigde Staten.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.509358
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| LC Classification
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PS374.W65G36 2008
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18.06bcl
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HU 1819rvk
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