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Author:

Aldridge, John W.

Title:

After the lost generation : a critical study of the writers of two wars / by John W. Aldridge ; introduction by Norman Mailer.

Publisher:

Arbor House,

Copyright Date:

1985

Description:

xxiii, 263 pages ; 21 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
War stories, American--History and criticism.
World War, 1914-1918--United States--Literature and the war.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Literature and the war.
Roman américain--20e siècle--Histoire et critique.
Récits de guerre américains--Histoire et critique.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945--États-Unis--Littérature et guerre.
American fiction.
War and literature.
War stories, American.
United States.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Note: Contents data are based on pre-publication information provided by the publisher. Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete. -- -- Preface -- Introduction / Norman Mailer -- -- PART I. THE LOST GENERATION -- I. Disillusion and Separate Peace -- II. Exile -- III. Hemingway: Nightmare and the Correlative Loss -- IV. Fitzgerald: The Horror and the Vision of Paradise -- V. Dos Passos: The Energy of Despair -- -- PART II: THE NEW WRITERS OF THE FORTIES -- VI. The Search for Values -- VII. The Neo-Hemingways: And the Failure of Protest -- VIII. Vance Bourjaily: The Two Worlds of Skinner Galt -- IX. Mailer, Burns, and Shaw: The Naked Zero -- X. Merle Miller: Journalist of Sham -- XI. Gore Vidal: The Search for a King -- XII. Paul Bowles: The Canceled Sky -- XIII. Capote and Buechner: The Escape into Otherness -- XIV. The Young Writer in America -- INDEX.

Series:

The Arbor House library of contemporary Americana

ISBN:

9780877957577
0877957576

OCLC:

(OCoLC)12051717

LCCN:

85009210

Locations:

UVAX975 -- Western Iowa Tech Library (Sioux City)