Dos Passos's Three Soldiers: a case study.(The Evolution of War and Its Representation in Literature and Film)(Critical essay)

From: West Virginia University Philological Papers | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

One cannot legitimately discuss American anti-war novels without the inclusion of John Dos Passos's Three Soldiers (1921). Set in WWI, the novel entered a market hungry for tales of the war, but one unprepared for this depiction of the war and the military machine in general. In 1918 Dos Passos wrote to a friend: 

  [W]ar, no matter where, consisted of boredom, slavery to all sorts    of  military stupidities, and an interesting sort of misery, and    the need  for warmth, bread, and cleanliness. It was no more than    an enormous,  tragic digression in people's lives which brought   ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

John Dos Passos: one man, one life.
; ...credentials or more experience than did John Dos Passos. Dos, as his friends called him and as...stem-winding speeches, thrust the medal at Dos Passos and said only, Nobody deserved it more...irony, the established honors accorded to Dos Passos were in recognition of the radical ...
Dos Passos: a life.
; ...1970 at the age of 74, John Roderigo Dos Passos had outlived his three most famous contemporaries...the four, the literary reputation of Dos Passos has certainly taken the most dramatic...Every so often we are informed that a Dos Passos revival is imminent, but that off-heralded...
FROM THE FUTURE TO THE PAST: THE DISILLUSIONMENT OF JOHN DOS PASSOS.
; The dramatic change in John Dos Passos's outlook between his writing of the U...the most significant turning point in Dos Passos's literary and political life.(1) This essay explores Dos Passos's political reversal in light of his concurrent...
John Dos Passos, Blaise Cendrars, and the "other" modernism.
; ...interwar French avant-garde long considered John Dos Passos as an eminent literary figure. Dos Passos's influence on French writers and editors...in his 1938 article on U.S.A., considered Dos Passos to be the greatest writer of our time (80...
Writing for his agendas; John Dos Passos and his novels of American life.(BOOKS)
; ...be completely forgotten. Although John Dos Passos is by no means completely forgotten...rankings of his fellow writers, has said, Dos Passos came nearer than any of us to writing...1932), and The Big Money (1936) - that Dos Passos republished in 1938 as U.S.A., remain...
The Theme Is Freedom.
; ...their morals. And they knocked off John Dos Passos by averring that he had lost his skill...book called The Theme Is Freedom, Mr. Dos Passos sets forth the fever-chart of his own...This book consists of a series of old Dos Passos articles taken from books and the tattered...
Exploring the transformation of Dos Passos
; Could John Dos Passos be coming back? The question is raised with tonight's "The Odyssey of John Dos Passos" (10 p.m., Channel 2), a blend of archival...narrated by journalist Robert MacNeil, with Dos Passos' work and words interpreted by actor...
A grand sweep of America, in 1,288 pages
; U.S.A. By John Dos Passos; edited by Daniel Aaron and Townsend...pages. $40. What ever happened to John Dos Passos? When my uncle went to college on the G.I. Bill right after World War II, Dos Passos was, he tells me, a very big deal with...
In the American Grain
; ...Parallel; 1919; The Big Money By John Dos Passos Library of America. 1,288 pp. $40 THAT JOHN Dos Passos's massive U.S.A. trilogy belongs in the...though this is not for lack of imitators, Dos Passos himself among them. In larger part, though...
The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles.(Book Review)
; The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles. By Stephen...introduced, this study plunges into 1936: Dos Passos's literary reputation is riding high...picture as the year draws to a close. Dos Passos and his wife Katy--long-time Hemingway...