The Antinomies of Realism

[malignd at aol.com]

This guy needs to read Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe. I'm pretty certain he didn't draw from the conventions of generic wars novels or films or generic experiments.  He may have drawn from Grant's memoirs, but I've never heard that.



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From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
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"... war ... is virtually non-narrative, and ... this raw material
seeks to appropriate its missing protagonist from any number of
narrative paradigms, ranging from the conventions of generic war
novels or films ... to [a] multiplicity of generic experiments ..."
(p. 251)

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