Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Reading American War Literature, Reading Ernest Hemingway
1.ReadingTwentieth-Century American War Literature
2. War, Gender, and Ernest Hemingway
Part 2. Reading James Salter
3. James Salter Biographic and Cultural Context
4. The Hemingway Influence and the Very Modern _A Sport and a Pastime_
5. From Flying to Writing
6. Death, Desire, and the Homosocial
Part 3: Reading Tim O’Brien
7. O’Brien’s Literary Project
8. Submission and Resistance to the Self as Soldier: Tim O’Brien’s War Memoir
9. Salvation, Storytelling, and Pilgrimage in _The Things They Carried_
10. O’Brien’s War, O’Brien’s Women
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index