{"title":"William Gaddis, the Us Army, and the Unwriting of an American War Novel","authors":"Jason Arthur","doi":"10.1353/lit.2022.0026","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay examines, for the first time, William Gaddis's stint as a scriptwriter for the US Army's Signal Corps Pictorial Services (APS). Through comparative analysis of a battle-documentary script that Gaddis wrote for the APS and his writing of the novel","PeriodicalId":44728,"journal":{"name":"COLLEGE LITERATURE","volume":"49 1","pages":"711 - 739"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"COLLEGE LITERATURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2022.0026","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This essay examines, for the first time, William Gaddis's stint as a scriptwriter for the US Army's Signal Corps Pictorial Services (APS). Through comparative analysis of a battle-documentary script that Gaddis wrote for the APS and his writing of the novel