The prestige of violence
Subtitle: American fiction, 1962-2007
By: Sally Bachner
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780820338897; 9780820339108
Subjects: American fiction; History and criticism; Violence in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The prestige of violence: American fiction, 1962-2007; title: Zembla in The New York Times: Pale fire's historical violence; title: Monks and "The mind of Watts": Vietnam in The crying of Lot 49; title: Americanizing Vietnam in Mailer's The armies of the night; title: Veterans of sex: feminist fiction and the rise of PTSD; title: "Words generally only spoil things": fantasy, testimony, and trauma in the work of Philip Roth; title: "The hammers striking the page": Don DeLillo and the violent politics of language; title: After the aftermath: American fiction since 2007.