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The literary Cold War, 1945-Vietnam / Adam Piette.

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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 Vladim...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Piette, Adam
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Cold War > Influence.
Cold War in literature.
American literature.
Cold War (1945-1989) in literature.
English literature.
War > Influence.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • The special relationship and the British hypothesis : the black laurel, the third man, Cold War Vienna and Berlin
  • Cold War on the 1930s and sacrificial naming : John Dos Passos and Josephine Herbst
  • DEW line, uranium and the Arctic Cold War : Ginsberg's Kaddish and Nabokov's Lolita
  • Cold War sex war, or the other being inside : Burroughs, Paley, Plath, Hughes
  • The sacrificial logic of the Asian Cold War : Greene's The quiet American and McCarthy's The seventeenth degree
  • Conclusion.

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