From myth to irony: the character of the soldier in American novel of the 20th and 21st century

The objective of the dissertation is a study of the soldier character in American war novels of the twentieth and twenty-first century, and the ways in which soldiers’ war experience overlaps with the popular social idea of war in American society. The intention of the dissertation is to emphasize the principles of creation (before the war), collapse (during the war) and remythization (after the w…