TY - BOOK AU - Bachner,Sally ED - Project Muse. TI - The prestige of violence: American fiction, 1962-2007 SN - 9780820341354 AV - PS374.V58 B33 2011 U1 - 813/.5209 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Athens, GA PB - University of Georgia Press KW - Violence in literature KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The prestige of violence: American fiction, 1962-2007 -- Zembla in The New York Times: Pale fire's historical violence -- Monks and "The mind of Watts": Vietnam in The crying of Lot 49 -- Americanizing Vietnam in Mailer's The armies of the night -- Veterans of sex: feminist fiction and the rise of PTSD -- "Words generally only spoil things": fantasy, testimony, and trauma in the work of Philip Roth -- "The hammers striking the page": Don DeLillo and the violent politics of language -- After the aftermath: American fiction since 2007 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780820341354/ ER -