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The gun and the pen：Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and the fiction of mobilization

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gandal Keith.
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Fitzgerald > Francis Scott (1896-1940).
Fitzgerald > F. Scott > 1896-1940.
Hemingway > Ernest (1899-1961).
Faulkner > William, > 1897-1962.
Faulkner > William (1897-1962).
Hemingway > Ernest, > 1899-1961.
Hemingway > Ernest,
Fitzgerald > Francis Scott.
Faulkner > William,
World War, 1914-1918 > United States > Literature and the war.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Guerre mondiale (1914-1918) > États-Unis > Littérature et guerre.
War and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Mobilmachung.
Prosa.
Weltkrieg <1914-1918>
United States > Armed Forces > Mobilization > History.
États-Unis > Forces armées.
USA
Item Description: Great Gatsby.
Sun also rises.
Sound and the fury.
The great Gatsby.
The sun also rises.
The sound and the fury.
Carrier Form: xii, 271 p.: ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9780195338911 (alk. paper)
019533891X (alk. paper)
Index Number: I712
CLC: I712.074
Call Number: I712.074/G195
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-254) and index.
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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