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The political novel [electronic resource] : re-imagining the twentieth century / Stuart A. Scheingold.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Continuum, 2010.Description: 262 p.: 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781441176394
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No title; No titleDDC classification:
  • 809.3
LOC classification:
  • PN 3448 S319p 2010
Contents:
Contents; Preface; 1 Novels of Political Estrangement: Subversion of Agency in the Twentieth Century; 2 Anti-War Novels in the Twentieth Century: The Road to Late Modernity; 3 The Alchemy of Catastrophe: Seeking Spiritual Solace in the Ashes of the Holocaust; 4 Aftermath of Disaster: The Nazi Legacy; 5 The Contradictions of Democracy: Political Estrangement in the U.S. and the U.K.; 6 Re-imagining the Twentieth Century, Remembering the Twenty-First; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary: Scholars from a variety of academic disciplines have been drawn into exhaustive analyses of what went wrong in "the terrible 20th Century", as Winston Churchill dubbed it. In this book Scheingold adds political novels to those inquiries and argues that they make a distinctive and hitherto neglected contribution to the collective memory of the 20th Century. These fictional accounts are the work of some of the century's most celebrated novelists: Kafka, Heller, Boll, Grass, Vonnegut and others. As refracted through the literary imagination, the "terrible" 20th Century takes on new meaning
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 3448 S319p 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000152015

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-256) and index.

Contents; Preface; 1 Novels of Political Estrangement: Subversion of Agency in the Twentieth Century; 2 Anti-War Novels in the Twentieth Century: The Road to Late Modernity; 3 The Alchemy of Catastrophe: Seeking Spiritual Solace in the Ashes of the Holocaust; 4 Aftermath of Disaster: The Nazi Legacy; 5 The Contradictions of Democracy: Political Estrangement in the U.S. and the U.K.; 6 Re-imagining the Twentieth Century, Remembering the Twenty-First; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Scholars from a variety of academic disciplines have been drawn into exhaustive analyses of what went wrong in "the terrible 20th Century", as Winston Churchill dubbed it. In this book Scheingold adds political novels to those inquiries and argues that they make a distinctive and hitherto neglected contribution to the collective memory of the 20th Century. These fictional accounts are the work of some of the century's most celebrated novelists: Kafka, Heller, Boll, Grass, Vonnegut and others. As refracted through the literary imagination, the "terrible" 20th Century takes on new meaning

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