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Book SynopsisArgues that World War II blurred the boundaries between battleground and home front bringing women and civilians into war discourse. This book discusses the interplay of fascination and disapproval in the texts of twentieth-century war and the way in which homage to war hero and victim contends with revulsion at war's horror and waste.
Trade ReviewLorrie Goldensohn is a superb writer with an exemplary presence of mind. Her attention to the "largeness of literary being" she finds in the poetry of war is balanced by an extraordinary moral and historical wakefulness. Rigorous, open to surprise and terror, she engages us in the struggle to see clearly the illogic of war and, as she says, "to keep imaginative faith with the species" that wages war and finds ingenious ways to justify itself. Dismantling Glory is a brilliant mosaic, at once learned, dramatic, urgent, mournful and exhilarating. -- Robert Boyers Skidmore College For anyone unacquainted with the history of war poetry in Britain and America during the twentieth century, Goldensohn's book is a good introduction. The Nation
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface: A Preliminary Acknowledgments 1. The Dignities of Danger 2. Wilfred Owen's "Long-famous glories, immemorial shames" 3. W. H. Auden: "The great struggle of our time" 4. Keith Douglas: Inside the Whale 5. Randall Jarrell's War 6. American Poets of the Vietnam War Notes Works Cited Index Further Acknowledgments
