Propoganda: the machine, the crusade, and the Teutonic beast
The war lover: Claude (Willa Cather)
Scar tissue: Zorn (Theodore Fredenburgh)
Success story: Richard Savage (John Dos Passos)
Babbitt in khaki: Mattack (James Stevens)
The subterraneans: Irwin and Fuselli (Elliot Paul, John Dos Passos)
A world withdrawn: Mahon and Hicks (William Faulkner, Thomas Boyd)
Between tears and laughter: E.E. Cummings
The aesthetic rebellion: John Andrews (John Dos Passos)
Death and cojones: Frederic Henry (Ernest Hemingway)
VI. Impact, war, and the critics: a summing up
Criticism and the two wars
Interwar and the humanist protest
Critical revisionism: World War II
Negation and nostalgia: the recollection of impact.