Directory of Criticism Resources

This category is for sites containing literary criticism of published espionage fiction and war fiction of some literary merit and renown.

Resources in This Category

The Beleaguered Individual

http://christle.freeshell.org/title.html
This doctoral dissertation by Patrick Paul Christle examines 20th century American war novels and argues that war is a sort of intensified experience of and an allegory for the world at large for the authors studied. Thus, they use the battlefield as the stage upon which to work out their explorations of what it means to be a modern individual.
Two Spanish Civil War Novels and Questions of Canonicity

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/old-WILLA/fall92/n-boxwell.html
D.A. Boxwell discusses Rose Macaulay's "And No Man's Wit" and Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls." Boxwell argues that Macaulay's novel is one of countless object lessons in how literary canonization suffers from strategic amnesia.

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