The prestige of violence : American fiction, 1962-2007 / / Sally Bachner.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 172 p. |
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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.