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  • Cold Reality: Revisions of War in John Knowles’ ‘Phineas’ and A Separate Peace
  • The State Department’s Northern Ireland Special Envoys and the redemption of the Good Friday Agreement
  • “a settled place”: Reproductive Performance in the Liberties and The Liberties
  • Review: Austenfeld, ed., Robert Lowell in a New Century

Author Natalie Schriefer

Natalie Schriefer

Natalie Schriefer, MFA is an academic editor for the College of Health & Human Services at Southern Connecticut State University. Her research interests include American literature, queer studies, and gaming/pop culture. For a list of selected publications, or to contact Natalie, please visit her website at www.natalieschriefer.com.

Cold Reality: Revisions of War in John Knowles’ ‘Phineas’ and A Separate Peace

Natalie Schriefer
Articles
Both John Knowles’s short story “Phineas” and his novel A Separate Peace are bisected by the same incident: the shattering of the schoolboy athlete Phineas’s leg during a summer war game where narrator Gene “jo... Read More...
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