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" The literary Cold War, 1945-Vietnam / "
Adam Piette.
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BL
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998254
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b752624
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Piette, Adam.
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The literary Cold War, 1945-Vietnam /\ Adam Piette.
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Edinburgh :: Edinburgh University Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)
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0748635289
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0748635270
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9780748635276
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The special relationship and the British hypothesis : the black laurel, the third man, Cold War Vienna and Berlin -- Cold War on the 1930s and sacrificial naming : John Dos Passos and Josephine Herbst -- DEW line, uranium and the Arctic Cold War : Ginsberg's Kaddish and Nabokov's Lolita -- Cold War sex war, or the other being inside : Burroughs, Paley, Plath, Hughes -- The sacrificial logic of the Asian Cold War : Greene's The quiet American and McCarthy's The seventeenth degree -- Conclusion.
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This is a ground-breaking study of the psychological and cultural impact of the Cold War on the imaginations of citizens in the UK and US. The Literary Cold War examines writers working at the hazy borders between aesthetic project and political allegory, with specific attention being paid to Vladimir Nabokov and Graham Greene as Cold War writers. The book looks at the special relationship as a form of paranoid plotline governing key Anglo-American texts from Storm Jameson to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, as well as examining the figure of the non-aligned neutral observer caught up in the sacrificial triangles structuring cold war fantasy. The book aims to consolidate and define a new emergent field in literary studies, the literary Cold War, following the lead of prominent historians of the period. Key Features One of the first influential monographs to look at leading Anglo-American writers 1945-Vietnam in terms of the Cold War as psychological and fantasy phenomenon Exemplary form of literary criticism combining close reading and new historical forms of research Significant readings of key postwar writers, including Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Mary McCarthy, Graham Greene and Vladimir Nabokov A major contribution to twentieth-century war studies, especially with its focus on the special relationship between the US and the UK, of obvious political and cultural relevance today
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American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Cold War in literature.
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Cold War-- Influence.
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English literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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American literature.
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Amerikansk litteratur-- 1900-talet.
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Cold War (1945-1989) in literature.
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Engelsk litteratur-- 1900-talet.
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English literature.
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Kalla kriget i litteraturen.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS-- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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War-- Influence.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/358209045
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PN771.P54 2009eb
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