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Title

Modern War and American Literature: Ironic Realism, Satire, and Escape

Author

Ty Hawkins

Document Type

Essay

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.

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

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