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Author:
Horn, Eva.
Title:
The secret war : treason, espionage, and modern fiction / Eva Horn ; translated from the German and with an introduction by Geoffrey Winthrop-Young.
Publisher:
Northwestern University Press,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
x, 413 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm
Subject:
Spy stories, English--History and criticism.
Spy stories, German--History and criticism.
Espionage in literature.
Spies in literature.
Other Authors:
Winthrop-Young, Geoffrey, 1960-
Other Titles:
Geheime Krieg. English
Notes:
"Originally published in German as Der geheime Krieg: Verrat, Spionage und moderne Fiktion in 2007 by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Translating betrayal: signpost for the secret war / Geoffrey Winthrop-Young -- Introduction: treason, secrets, and fiction -- Part 1. Borges -- a poetics of treason -- Part 2. Treason and secrecy in the modern age -- Chapter 1. The age of treason -- Chapter 2. Logics of political secrecy -- Chapter 3. Secret intelligence -- Part 3. The great game -- Chapter 4. Strategic space -- Chapter 5. Local knowledge -- Chapter 6. The partisan, the traitor -- Part 4. Spies, male and female: the First World War and the war of the sexes -- Part 5. Agents of the world revolution -- Chapter 7. "Bertolt Brecht, minstrel of the GPU" -- Part 6. Cold War -- Chapter 8. War games: war as hypothesis -- Chapter 9. The human factor -- Part 7. State paranoia -- Part 8. Invisible government: JFK -- Part 9. After 9/11 -- Chapter 10. The future of enmity: nets, swarms, viruses -- Conclusion.
ISBN:
0810127636 (paperback)
9780810127630 (paperback)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)822995172
LCCN:
2012050887
Locations:
UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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