The literary Cold War, 1945-Vietnam /
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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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
©2009.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r284z |
Sommario:
- 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.