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The Beleaguered Individual
This doctoral dissertation by Patrick Paul Christle examines 20th century American war novels and argues that war is a sort of intensified experience of and an allegory for the world at large for the authors studied. Thus, they use the battlefield as th
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Conversation Across a Century: The War Stories of Ambrose Bierce and Tim O’Brien
Christopher Campbell argues that, in the literature of Bierce and O'Brien, similarities of theme and treatment attest to the universality of the soldier’s experience. Likewise, differences of tone and meaning in the tales of each writer tell us more abou
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“Incense and Ashes”: The Postmodern Work of Refutation in Three Vietnam War Novels
Steven P. Liparulo discusses Tim O’Brien’s "The Things They Carried" and two novels by North Vietnamese veterans--Bao Ninh’s "The Sorrow of War" and "Novel Without a Name" by Duong Thu Huong. Liparulo argues that these texts
http://www.wlajournal.com/15_1-2/liparulo%2071-94.pdf
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Joseph Heller’s Combat Experiences in "Catch-22"
Michael C. Scoggins argues that Heller’s military career played a much greater role in the concept and structure of "Catch-22" than most critics have ever suspected. Many of the characters and incidents in the novel were in fact drawn directly
http://www.wlajournal.com/15_1-2/scoggins%20213-227.pdf
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"The Things They Carried" as Composite Novel
Farrell O'Gorman argues that Tim O’Brien's "The Things They Carried" is best characterized as neither novel nor collection of short stories, but as what Maggie Dunn and Ann Morris have defined as a composite novel, one in which the interrelatio
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Two Spanish Civil War Novels and Questions of Canonicity
D.A. Boxwell discusses Rose Macaulay's "And No Man's Wit" and Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls." Boxwell argues that Macaulay's novel is one of countless object lessons in how literary canonization suffers from strategic am
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/old-WILLA/fall92/n-boxwell.html
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Experiences of "Soldiers of Fortune"
A study of Korean novels about the Vietnam War by Jinim Park.
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/aspac/papers/scholars/park/
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The Mind at War
This essay by Kalí Tal is concerned with the re-vision of images of women in novels written by American combat veterans of the Vietnam War, and a new examination of the connection that those images have with the author's process of healing from the traum
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The Self-Reflexive War: War Looking at Film Looking at War
This essay by Kalí Tal discusses the images of film in two novels by Vietnam veterans -- Robert Anderson's "Service for the Dead" and Stephen Wright's "Meditations in Green" -- because these works use film and the filmmaker as a centr
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