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Wartime : understanding and behavior in the Second World War

著者: Paul Fussell
出版商: New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.
版本/格式:   图书 : 英语查看所有的版本和格式
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"...in 'Wartime,' Fussell turns to the Second World War, the conflict he himself fought in, to weave a narrative that is both more intensely personal and more wide-ranging....Here Fussell examines the immediate impact of the war on common soldiers and civilians. He describes the psychological and emotional atmosphere of World War II. He analyzes the wishful thinking and the euphemisms people needed to deal with  再读一些...
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所有的著者/提供者: Paul Fussell
ISBN: 0195037979 9780195037975 0195065778 9780195065770
OCLC号码: 19125231
注意: Includes index.
描述: x, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
内容: From light to heavy duty --
"Precision bombing will win the war" --
Someone had blundered --
Rumors of war --
School of the soldier --
Unread books on a shelf --
Chickenshit, an anaotomy --
Drinking far too much, copulating too little --
Type-casting --
The ideological vacuum --
Accentuate the positive --
High-mindedness --
With one voice --
Deprivation --
Compensation --
Reading in wartime --
Fresh idiom --
"The real war will never get in the books".
责任: Paul Fussell.
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"...in 'Wartime,' Fussell turns to the Second World War, the conflict he himself fought in, to weave a narrative that is both more intensely personal and more wide-ranging....Here Fussell examines the immediate impact of the war on common soldiers and civilians. He describes the psychological and emotional atmosphere of World War II. He analyzes the wishful thinking and the euphemisms people needed to deal with unacceptable reality (the early belief, for instance, that the war could be won by 'precision bombing,' that is, by long distance); he describes the abnormally intense frustration of desire and some of the means by which desire was satisfied; and, most important, he emphasizes the damage the war did to intellect, discrimination, honesty, individuality, complexity, ambiguity and wit....He examines...how the great privations of wartime (when oranges would be raffled off as valued prizes) resulted in roccoco prose styles that dwelt longingly on lavish dinners, and how the 'high-mindedness' of the era and the almost pathological need to 'accentuate the positive' invited the downfall of the acerbic H. L. Mencken and the ascent of E. B. White. He also offers astute commentary on Edmund Wilson's argument with Archibald MacLeish, Cyril Connolly's 'Horizon' magazine, the war poetry of Randall Jarrell and Louis Simpson, and many other aspects of the wartime literary world....For the past fifty years, the Allied war has been sanitized and romanticized almost beyond recognition by 'the sentimental, the loony patriotic, the ignorant, and the bloodthirsty.' Americans, he says, have never understood what the Second World War was really like....[and] he offers such an understanding.

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