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An Examination Of The Life And Work Of Gustav Hasford, Matthew Samuel Ross
An Examination Of The Life And Work Of Gustav Hasford, Matthew Samuel Ross
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While Stanley Kubrick's film Full Metal Jacket has remained in the national consciousness twenty years after its release, the author of its source material, Gustav Hasford, has not. Few people know or remember that the Oscar-nominated film was not an original work but was adapted by Hasford, Kubrick, and Dispatches author Michael Herr from Hasford's 1979 novel The Short-Timers. Fewer people remember that following the well-reviewed The Short-Timers Hasford published a sequel, The Phantom Blooper, as well as one final novel A Gypsy Good Time, a frenetic parody of detective fiction. To say that Gustav Hasford is primarily remembered as …
Sources Of Fear In American Society: Representations In Short Horror Fiction, 1950s-Present, Mona Moin Syed
Sources Of Fear In American Society: Representations In Short Horror Fiction, 1950s-Present, Mona Moin Syed
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This study examines the ways in which short American horror fiction has always revolved around fundamental fears of mortality, and how these fears have shifted across the span of three specific timeframes. Using a historical lens, this study also explores what the specific nature of mortality fears, as reflected in particular instances of short horror fiction, historically reveal about contemporaneous cultural attitudes toward end of life issues, loss, doubt, and grief. This study also traces how the perceptions of mortality have dynamically changed in American society from 1950s to present times in accordance with powerful historical events, varying cultural contexts, …
Visions Of The Future; Notions Of American Identity In James Fenimore Cooper's The Last Of The Mohicans And Catharine Maria Sedgwck's Hope Leslie Or, Early Times In The Massachusetts, Cheryl M. Gioioso
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