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William Gaddis, the Us Army, and the Unwriting of an American War Novel
- College Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 49, Number 4, Fall 2022
- pp. 711-739
- 10.1353/lit.2022.0026
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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