CONTINUITY OF ANTIMILITARY AMERICAN LITERARY TRADITION IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH – THE FIRST THIRD OF THE 20TH CENTURY
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American literature has a rich tradition of portraying war events. It has been forming for several centuries. Works devoted to the Civil and the First World Wars became known all over the world. The article deals with the connection of antimilitary tendencies in American literature of the second part of the nineteenth – the first third of the twentieth centuries. The subject of the comparative-contrastive study is the works by A. Bierce, Jh. DeForest, S. Crane (worked with the Civil War events) and Th. Boyd, Jh. Dos Passos, E. Hemingway (described the American participation in World War I). The common features for both generations are criticallyironic depiction of war events, attention to its negative sides, dethronement of heroic moves, literary studies based on L. Tolstoy’s works.
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