Title
Modern War and American Literature: Ironic Realism, Satire, and Escape
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Examines the concept of modern war, characterized by nationalism, industrialism, and total immersion in Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Heller’s Catch-22 (1961), and A Farewell to Arms. Categorizing A Farewell to Arms as an example of the “separate peace” escape war narrative, Hawkins analyzes the question of whether life after war exists, concluding that Frederic and Catherine are doomed to fail from the beginning.
Published in
Violence in Literature
Date
2014
Pages
54-68
COinS
Citation
Hawkins, Ty. “Modern War and American Literature: Ironic Realism, Satire, and Escape.” In Violence in Literature, edited by Stacey Peebles, 54-68. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2014.