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Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present

David F. Eisler

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Description:Choice Outstanding Academic Title2024 Senators Bob and Elizabeth Dole Biennial Award for Distinguished Book in Veterans Studies, winnerWho writes novels about war? For nearly a century after World War I, the answer was soldiers who had been there. The assumption that a person must have experienced war in the flesh in order to write about it in fiction was taken for granted by writers, reviewers, critics, and even scholars.Contemporary American fiction tells a different story. Less than half of the authors of contemporary war novels are veterans. And that’s hardly the only change. Today’s war novelists focus on the psychological and moral challenges of soldiers coming home rather than the physical danger of combat overseas. They also imagine the consequences of the wars from non-American perspectives in a way that defies the genre’s conventions. To understand why these changes have occurred, David Eisler argues that we must go back nearly fifty years, to the political decision to abolish the draft. The ramifications rippled into the field of cultural production, transforming the foundational characteristics— authorship, content, and form—of the American war fiction genre.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present. To get started finding Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Choice Outstanding Academic Title2024 Senators Bob and Elizabeth Dole Biennial Award for Distinguished Book in Veterans Studies, winnerWho writes novels about war? For nearly a century after World War I, the answer was soldiers who had been there. The assumption that a person must have experienced war in the flesh in order to write about it in fiction was taken for granted by writers, reviewers, critics, and even scholars.Contemporary American fiction tells a different story. Less than half of the authors of contemporary war novels are veterans. And that’s hardly the only change. Today’s war novelists focus on the psychological and moral challenges of soldiers coming home rather than the physical danger of combat overseas. They also imagine the consequences of the wars from non-American perspectives in a way that defies the genre’s conventions. To understand why these changes have occurred, David Eisler argues that we must go back nearly fifty years, to the political decision to abolish the draft. The ramifications rippled into the field of cultural production, transforming the foundational characteristics— authorship, content, and form—of the American war fiction genre.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present. To get started finding Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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