The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam / / Adam Piette.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Piette, Adam,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

This is a ground-breaking study of the psychological and cultural impact of the Cold War on the imaginations of citizens in the UK and US.The Literary Cold War examines writers working at the hazy borders between aesthetic project and political allegory, with specific attention being paid to Vladimir Nabokov and Graham Greene as Cold War writers. The book looks at the special relationship as a form of paranoid plotline governing key Anglo-American texts from Storm Jameson to Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, as well as examining the figure of the non-aligned neutral observer caught up in the sacrificial triangles structuring cold war fantasy. The book aims to consolidate and define a new emergent field in literary studies, the literary Cold War, following the lead of prominent historians of the period.Key FeaturesOne of the first influential monographs to look at leading Anglo-American writers 1945-Vietnam in terms of the Cold War as psychological and fantasy phenomenonExemplary form of literary criticism combining close reading and new historical forms of researchSignificant readings of key postwar writers, including Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Mary McCarthy, Graham Greene and Vladimir NabokovA major contribution to twentieth-century war studies, especially with its focus on the special relationship between the US and the UK, of obvious political and cultural relevance today

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP AND THE BRITISH HYPOTHESIS: THE BLACK LAUREL, THE THIRD MAN, COLD WAR VIENNA AND BERLIN -- 2 COLD WAR ON THE 1930S AND SACRIFICIAL NAMING: JOHN DOS PASSOS AND JOSEPHINE HERBST -- 3 DEW LINE, URANIUM AND THE ARCTIC COLD WAR: GINSBERG’S KADDISH AND NABOKOV’S LOLITA -- 4 COLD WAR SEX WAR, OR THE OTHER BEING INSIDE: BURROUGHS, PALEY, PLATH, HUGHES -- 5 THE SACRIFICIAL LOGIC OF THE ASIAN COLD WAR: GREENE’S THE QUIET AMERICAN AND MCCARTHY’S THE SEVENTEENTH DEGREE -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX