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The Edinburgh companion to twentieth-century British and American War literature
The first reference book to deal so fully and incisively with the cultural representations of war in 20th-century English and US literature and film. The volume covers the two World Wars as well as specific conflicts that generated literary and imaginative responses from English and US writers.
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The Literary Cold War 1945 to Vietnam
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 through John Dos Passos to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, as well as examining the figure of the non-aligned neutral observer.
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THE FICTIONS OF NUCLEAR WAR, FROM HIROSHIMA TO VIETNAM
On 16 July 1945, the first atom bomb was detonated at Trinity at the Alamogordo Test Range in New Mexico. The Manhattan Project observers who witnessed the blast gasped at the quasi-divine energies released over the sands. Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell was in awe at the new military sun that had been unleashed on earth:
The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun. It was golden, purple, violet, gray and blue. It lighted every peak, crevasse and ridge of the nearby mountain range with a clarity and beauty
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WAR AND DIVISION IN \PARADE'S END\
The chapter provides a close reading of the Vorticist opening scene of No More Parades featuring the death of O Nine Morgan, drawing specific parallels between Ford's staging of the three male couples and Wyndham Lewis's play The Enemy of the Stars. This great sequence leading up to the terrible death instances a division of the mind beyond the pseudo-couple and towards a multiplex of fragmented war consciousness. Developing the Conradian male-male dualism characteristic of Ford's pre-war fiction, the chapter argues that Ford is here in very detailed terms updating that homo duplex theme as a Lewisite master-slave life and death struggle, rewriting the Arghol-Hanp relationship as a common condition of all fighting men's minds under war conditions. It is shown at work in this chapter in McKechnie's gabbling self-dialogue, in Tietjens' own tormented duplicate torment of mind, in the class relations and co-dependency of officers and men, in the shell-shocked hunger for love of these trench-exiled combatants, in the terrible division of body suffered by O Nine Morgan. The chapter ends with consideration of the way these couples transform into triangles through absent others; and then adds a fourth element, the iron brazier at the heart of the hut and the shell fragment that kills O Nine Morgan, signifying the inhuman, post-human killing technology of war.
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Ending the Mother Ghost: Beckett's Ill Seen Ill Said and Rockaby
This paper looks at two late texts written in 1981 by Samuel Beckett, the novel Ill Seen Ill Said and the play Rockaby, and reads them as difficult Oedipal elegies for his mother May Beckett who had died thirty years previously. The close reading of the texts brings out the conflicted psychoanalytic contradictions of the representations, especially the son's strange identification with the mother brought on by the fact Beckett was himself approaching his mother's age when she died. The close readings also argue for a 'sentimental' reading of the lyric patterning of both novel and play at key moments, using Simone de Beauvoir's work on old age and her mother's death as reference points. The article ends with a definition of the Oedipal identification as a Memnon complex, where the son and mother fuse together as writing and dying subjects.
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Sputniks, Ice-Picks, G.P.U
The Atlantic became one of the most contested military zones of the Second World War in the ferocious battles between the U-boats and convoys. That militarisation of the ocean entered a new phase in the Cold War with the NATO Treaty of 1949: the North Atlantic, battleground between the Axis and Allied forces, became the strategic core of the West’s containment of the Soviet military threat. NATO became an organisation in January 1950, inaugurating the high Cold War, and launching the Cold War 1950s as an international Atlantic Alliance. Its name has associated the Treaty Organization with maritime operations, and
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The Edinburgh companion to Samuel Beckett and the arts
This landmark collection showcases the diversity of Samuel Beckett's creative output with 35 newly written chapters by major Beckett critics such as Steven Connor, David Lloyd, Andrew Gibson, John Pilling, Jean-Michel Rabaté, and Mark Nixon, as well as emerging researchers.
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War and the Short Story
Elizabeth Bowen’s World War II short stories set up filiations between short story form and the violence being wreaked both materially on cities under blitz and psychologically by the estranging conditions of wartime. For Bowen there was a link between the anxieties caused by twentieth-century modernity and modernist short story form, its breaks, cuts, cryptic mental processes. The alliance between psychology and form went critical in wartime: World War II was modernity made extreme, revealing the war’s fantastic theatricality, its furious fragmentations and lethal explosiveness, its spatio-temporal splits in mind and city between pre-war and wartime, the intense isolating of
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