"War as a climactic moment in history," David Bevan writes, "is well-placed to advance the critical quest for the status of (the) text, and . . . war literature is thus very much in the mainstream of recent theoretical debate." The current proliferation of critical studies on the relationship of war in the twentieth century and literary production certainly lends considerable support

Project MUSE - MFS Modern Fiction Studies - Literature and War (review) Project MUSE Journals MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 36, Number 4, Winter 1990 Literature and War (review) MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 36, Number 4, Winter 1990 E-ISSN: 1080-658X Print ISSN: 0026-7724 DOI: 10.1353/mfs.0.0931 Reviewed by Laura L. DoanSUNY Geneseo David Bevan, ed. Literature and War. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1989. 209 pp. pb. $30.00. "War as a climactic moment in history," David Bevan writes, "is well-placed to advance the critical quest for the status of (the) text, and . . . war literature is thus very much in the mainstream of recent theoretical debate." The current proliferation of critical studies on the relationship of war in the twentieth century and literary production certainly lends considerable support...


Contents.
Literary strategies of war, strategies of literary war / James Knibb -- Ulysses, the Great War and the Easter 1916 rising / James Fairhall -- Katherine Mansfield and World War I / Patrick Morrow -- Giraudoux le Pacifique / Elizabeth Goulding -- The Spanish Civil War and the aesthetics of reportage / Peter Monteath -- The Spanish Civil War story / Anthony Percival -- Waiting for war to break out / Leon Riegel -- Rebels against absurdity / Victoria Carchidi -- French resistance literature / Max Adereth -- Underground laughter (1940-1944) / David Ball -- The vision of colony and metropolis in Portuguese colonial war literature / David Robertson -- Claude Simon, history and "L'innommable realite" / Pierre Daprini -- War is hell / Richard Young -- The impact of the Vietnam War on U.S. fiction / Walter W. Holbling.