UID:
almafu_9961984333202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (345 p.)
ISBN:
9786613716101
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9781280874796
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1280874791
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9781780347790
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1780347790
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9780748630721
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0748630724
Serie:
Edinburgh critical guides to literature
Inhalt:
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 w
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction: Chicago, 1893; 1 The Making of AmericanModernism; 2 Tales of New York City: The Birth of the Modern Metropolis; 3 Regional American Modernism; 4 Home Thoughts from Abroad: The Lost Generation; 5 'When Harlem Was in Vogue': African American Modernism; 6 'Make it New!' Experiments in Poetry and Drama; Conclusion: New York, 1939; Student Resources; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780748625062
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0748625062
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9780748630721
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