TY - BOOK ID - 17508860 TI - Writing after war : American war fiction from realism to postmodernism PY - 2023 SN - 0195087593 0195087585 1423738608 0195358597 1280442891 1601299672 9781423738602 9780195358599 9780195087598 9781280442896 9780195087581 019772695X PB - New York ; Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - Thematology KW - American literature KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - War stories, American KW - American fiction KW - Postmodernism (Literature) KW - Realism in literature. KW - Neorealism (Literature) KW - Magic realism (Literature) KW - Mimesis in literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Realism KW - In literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17508860 AB - This treatise develops a theory of the relationship of war in general to literature in general, to make sense of American literary history in particular. "The Iliad", argues the author, inaugurates literary history on the failure of war to be formally beautiful. ER -