Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien

Contents

Contents Preface ix Introduction 1 part i: reading american war literature, reading ernest hemingway 1 Reading Twentieth-Century American War Literature 29 2 War, Gender, and Ernest Hemingway 63 part ii: reading james salter 3 James Salter: Biographic and Cultural Context 89 4 The Hemingway Influence and the Very Modern A Sport and a Pastime 109 5 From Flying to Writing 129 6 Death, Desire, and the Homosocial 153 part iii: reading tim o’brien 7 O’Brien’s Literary Project 175 8 Submission and Resistance to the Self as Soldier: Tim O’Brien’s War Memoir 201 9 Salvation, Storytelling, and Pilgrimage in The Things They Carried 220 10 O’Brien’s War, O’Brien’s Women 242 Conclusion 259 Notes 263 Works Cited 297 Index 309 ...