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Chung, Youn-Son. "War and Morality: The Search for Meaning in American Novels of World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War," Emory University, August 1985. Advisor: Peter W. Dowell (12,11)
This dissertation examines three distinctive war phenomena and thematic patterns appearing in American novels of the three wars in question. The novels of World War I regard war as a cultural phenomenon and are concerned with the aesthetics of war; those of World War II focus on the social phenomenon and the sociology of war; and those of Vietnam consider war a natural phenomenon and examine the psychology of war. Based on the war novels of Wharton, Dos Passos, Wouk, Mailer, Jones, Webb, Durden and Del Vecchio, this study argues that, despite their thematic differences, these American war novels have a shared concern: to seek the meaning of human nobility in inhuman wars.
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