TY - GEN TY - GEN T1 - Writing wars : authorship and American war fiction, WWI to present T2 - The new American canon A1 - Eisler, David F., 1984- kirjoittaja LA - eng PP - Iowa City PB - University of Iowa Press YR - 2022 UL - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5647367 AB - "Who writes novels about war? For nearly a century after World War I, the answer was simple: soldiers who had been there. The assumption that a person must have experienced war in the flesh in order to write about it in fiction was taken for granted by writers, reviewers, critics, and even scholars. Contemporary American fiction tells a different story. Less than half of the authors of contemporary war novels are veterans. And that's hardly the only change. Today's war novelists focus on the psychological and moral challenges of soldiers coming home rather than the physical danger of combat overseas. They also imagine the consequences of the wars from non-American perspectives in a way that defies the genre's conventions. To understand why these changes have occurred, David Eisler argues that we must go back nearly fifty years, to the political decision to abolish the draft. The ramifications rippled into the field of cultural production, transforming the foundational characteristics- authorship, content, and form-of the American war fiction genre"-- SN - 978-1-60938-865-2 pehmeäkantinen SN - 1-60938-865-8 pehmeäkantinen KW - 1900-2099 KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. KW - HISTORY / Military / United States. KW - American fiction. KW - War stories, American. KW - War stories : Authorship. KW - American fiction : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - American fiction : 21st century : History and criticism. KW - War stories, American : History and criticism. KW - englanninkielinen kirjallisuus KW - kirjallisuudentutkimus KW - sodat KW - sotakirjallisuus KW - genretutkimus KW - kirjailijuus KW - litteratur på engelska KW - litteraturvetenskap KW - krig KW - krigslitteratur KW - genreforskning KW - författarskap ER -