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Modern American Literature / Catherine Morley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature : ECGLPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748625062
  • 9780748630721
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction: Chicago, 1893 -- Chapter 1 The Making of American Modernism -- Chapter 2 Tales of New York City: The Birth of the Modern Metropolis -- Chapter 3 Regional American Modernism -- Chapter 4 Home Thoughts from Abroad: The Lost Generation -- Chapter 5 ‘When Harlem Was in Vogue’: African American Modernism -- Chapter 6 ‘Make it New!’: Experiments in Poetry and Drama -- Conclusion: New York, 1939 -- Student Resources -- Index
Summary: An incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes Exploring canonical American writers such as Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner alongside less familiar writers like Djuna Barnes and Susan Glaspell, the guide takes readers though a diverse literary landscape. It considers how the rise of the American metropolis contributed to the growth of American modernism; and also examines the ways in which regional writers responded to an accelerated American modernity. Taking in African American modernism, cultural and geographical exile, as well as developments in modern American drama, the guide introduces readers to current critical trends in modernist studies.Key Features Presents American literary modernism as emerging from a broad intellectual and philosophical landscapeExtends the timeframe, definition and intellectual parameters of American modernismProvides close critical and contextual analysis of more than thirty American writers and key texts including Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land/p›
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction: Chicago, 1893 -- Chapter 1 The Making of American Modernism -- Chapter 2 Tales of New York City: The Birth of the Modern Metropolis -- Chapter 3 Regional American Modernism -- Chapter 4 Home Thoughts from Abroad: The Lost Generation -- Chapter 5 ‘When Harlem Was in Vogue’: African American Modernism -- Chapter 6 ‘Make it New!’: Experiments in Poetry and Drama -- Conclusion: New York, 1939 -- Student Resources -- Index

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An incisive study of modern American literature, casting new light on its origins and themes Exploring canonical American writers such as Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner alongside less familiar writers like Djuna Barnes and Susan Glaspell, the guide takes readers though a diverse literary landscape. It considers how the rise of the American metropolis contributed to the growth of American modernism; and also examines the ways in which regional writers responded to an accelerated American modernity. Taking in African American modernism, cultural and geographical exile, as well as developments in modern American drama, the guide introduces readers to current critical trends in modernist studies.Key Features Presents American literary modernism as emerging from a broad intellectual and philosophical landscapeExtends the timeframe, definition and intellectual parameters of American modernismProvides close critical and contextual analysis of more than thirty American writers and key texts including Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land/p›

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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