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Among the Nightmare Fighters: American Poets of World War II

Among the Nightmare Fighters: American Poets of World War II Hardcover - 2011

by Oostdijk, Diederik

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University of South Carolina Press, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket/Very Good. Pages crisp and clean except for creasing at the bottom corners of pages 105-114; no owners' marks; binding square and tight, hard cover only barely rubbed at spine ends; jacket has a scratch at the upper right front, more tangible than visible, and a little light wrinkling at the spine head and rubbing at the free corners, otherwise excellent.
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  • Title Among the Nightmare Fighters: American Poets of World War II
  • Author Oostdijk, Diederik
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
  • Pages 307
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of South Carolina Press
  • Date 2011
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 063944
  • ISBN 9781570039959 / 157003995X
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects War in literature, American poetry - 20th century - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011004417
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.520

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From the jacket flap

A bold reexamination of the literary and historical merits of American contributions to World War II poetry

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Citations

  • Choice, 12/01/2011, Page 0
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 08/01/2011, Page 190

About the author

Diederik Oostdijk is an associate professor at the VU University in Amsterdam. He is the coeditor of Tales of the Great American Victory: World War II in Politics and Poetics, based on an international conference, "The Stories of World War II," that he organized in Amsterdam in 2004. He has published more than a dozen journal articles and book chapters on American poetry and culture.