Understanding the Literature of World War II
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
- 272 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Understanding the Literature of World War II
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
About this book
With insightful analysis, factual contextual information, and illuminating historical documents, this book provides a detailed, but broad perspective on the most destructive event in history. The literature analyzed in this book includes that of novelists and poets such as Joseph Heller, Norman Mailer, Irwin Shaw, Kurt Vonnegut, William Styron, Richard Wilbur, James Dickey, Paul West, and Bette Green. Along with interviews with these literary luminaries that personalize the war and help to make connections between the literature and the actual experiences of those involved, Meredith also provides rare historical documents that enhance the reader's understanding of the military and political strategies of the major forces of the war. Each chapter provides a literary analysis of the most relevant literature for students on the topic of that chapter, followed by a historical overview of the aspect of the war that will aid the student to understand the historical context of the literature. Primary documents, especially interviews and memoirs, will help students to build bridges between history and the fictional accounts they read. Each chapter is followed by topics and questions for class discussion, suggestions for student papers, and a selected bibliography. This comprehensive casebook will be valuable for interdisciplinary study of World War II and the literature most frequently taught in high school English and history classes.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- World War II Chronology
- 1. The Combatants: An Analysis of Martha Gellhorn's A Stricken Field, Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterbouse-Five, Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, James Jones' From Here to Eternity, Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions, and the Poems of Richard Wilbur, James Dickey, And Randall Jarrell
- 2. The Home Front: An Analysis of Bette Green's Summer of My German Soldier and David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars
- 3. Occupation, Resistance, and Espionage: An Analysis of John Steinbeck's The Moon Is Down, Jack Higgins' The Eagle Has Landed, and Paul West's The Very Rich Hours of Count von Stauffenberg and Rat Man of Paris
- 4. The Holocaust: An Analysis of William Styron's Sophie's Choice and Elie Wiesel's Night
- 5. The Atomic Bomb: An Analysis of John Hersey's Hiroshima
- Index