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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Erscheint auch als: Piette, Adam, 1961 The literary Cold War Edinburgh : Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2009 VIII, 246 S. |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Adam Piette |
ISBN: | 9780748635283 0748635289 9780748635276 0748635270 |
OCLC Number: | 967395962 |
Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction -- The special relationship and the British hypothesis: The black laurel, The third man, Cold War Vienna and Berlin -- Cold War on the 1930s and sacrificial naming: John Dos Passos and Josephine Herbst -- DEW line, uranium and the Arctic Cold War: Ginsberg's Kaddish and Nabokov's Lolita -- Cold War sex war, or the other being inside: Burroughs, Paley, Plath, Hughes -- The sacrificial logic of the Asian Cold War: Greene's The quiet American and McCarthy's The seventeenth degree -- Conclusion. |
Responsibility: | Adam Piette. |
Abstract:
This is a ground-breaking study of the psychological and cultural impact of the Cold War on the imaginations of citizens in the UK and US.
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