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- W158853721 abstract "Sometimes it seems as if the wars of this century have been fought for the sake of literature. No one has counted the novels, memoirs, or poems that World War I spawned, but such a count would rise to the tens of thousands, very likely the hundreds of thousands. Similar figures would emerge for World War II, while even Vietnam, a very small war by comparison, has already engendered a very large bibliography. And if one added the scholarship devoted to these wars histories, monographs, source materials one would have sizable libraries. Which only confirms Homer's presumption that the fascination with war increases in the remembrance of it. Gods, he has King Alkinoos tell Odysseus, spun the destruction of peoples, for the sake of the singing of men hereafter. But most war literature rapidly fades from consciousness. Aesthetics plays a substantial role in this process: the bulk of the testimony has narrow concerns, little art, and much repetition. Economics also has a part: publishers' lists can only afford classics, except when a particular war is in fashion. Today's fashion, at least in America, is Vietnam, a war close enough to arouse feelings, yet distant enough to confront. If no masterpiece has yet emerged, many heartfelt and artful books have, and such efforts as Michael Herr' s Dispatches and Philip Caputo's Rumor of War seem to be gaining canonical status. The term canonical indicates a third factor often influencing the fame of war books: the prevailing dogma about the war in question. Certain wars generate interpretive orthodoxies. Vietnam is one, World War I, or the Great War, another. In the case of Vietnam, the belief that" @default.
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- W158853721 title "A Lost Classic" @default.
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