From Here to Eternity and The Naked and the Dead

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Authors

  • Alexander Hicks Emory University Author

Keywords:

James Jones, The Naked and the Dead, World War II fiction, modern epic and narrative form, literary style and technique, social realism and military life

Abstract

A comparative analysis of From Here to Eternity and The Naked and the Dead.

Author Biography

  • Alexander Hicks, Emory University

    Alexander Hicks is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, Emory University (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979). He is author or co-editor of books including Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism and first author of papers in leading Sociology and Political Science journals. He has twice served as editorial board member for the American Sociological Review and was inaugural co-editor of the Socioeconomic Review. He has been an omnivorous reader of fiction and fiction criticism since around 1960.

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Published

2026-06-16

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2011): Norris Mailer: A Life in Words

Section

Articles