文档介绍：Joseph Heller Black Humor
Hao Guilian, .
Yunnan Normal University
Fall, 2009
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War novels
A war novel is a novel in which the primary action takes place in a field of bat, or in a domestic setting (or home front) where the characters are upied with the preparations for, or recovery from, war. It is sometimes referred to as military fiction.
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The war novel came of age during the eenth century. Works such as Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, about the Napoleonic Wars in Russia, and Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, about the American Civil War established the conventions of the modern war novel as it e down to us today. All of these works feature realistic depictions of major battles, animal-like scenes of wartime horrors and violence, and significant insights into the nature of heroism, cowardice, and morality in wartime.
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World War I and after
World War I produced an unprecedented number of war novels, by writers from countries on all sides of the conflict. Ernest Hemingway's Sun Also Rises and John Dos Passos's Three Soldiers, are among a small number of American novels about the First World War.
Unlike World War I novels, a European-dominated genre, World War II novels were produced in the greatest numbers by American writers, who made war in the air, on the sea, and in key theatres such as the Pacific Ocean and Asia integral to the war novel. Among the most essful American war novels were Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny, James Jones's From Here to Eternity, and Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, the latter a novel set in the Spanish Civil War.
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More experimental and unconventional works in the post-war period included Joseph Heller's satirical Catch-22 and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, an early example of postmodernism. Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead, Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions, William Woodruff's Vessel of Sadness and James Jones'