The prestige of violence American fiction, 1962-2007 /

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Main Author: Bachner, Sally, 1970-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • The prestige of violence: American fiction, 1962-2007
  • Zembla in The New York Times: Pale fire's historical violence
  • Monks and "The mind of Watts": Vietnam in The crying of Lot 49
  • Americanizing Vietnam in Mailer's The armies of the night
  • Veterans of sex: feminist fiction and the rise of PTSD
  • "Words generally only spoil things": fantasy, testimony, and trauma in the work of Philip Roth
  • "The hammers striking the page": Don DeLillo and the violent politics of language
  • After the aftermath: American fiction since 2007.