Beyond Gatsby - How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Writers of 1920s Shaped American Culture

Informationen zum Autor By Robert McParland Klappentext This book demonstrates how the explosion of distinctly American fiction in the 1920s-including work by authors such as Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Faulker, and others-contributed to shaping the national imagination. Zusammenfassung This book demonstrates how the explosion of distinctly American fiction in the 1920s—including work by authors such as Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Faulker, and others—contributed to shaping the national imagination. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceIntroduction: The TwentiesChapter One Beyond the Wasteland: T.S. Eliot, the Lost Generation, and the Postwar WorldChapter Two Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald: Friendship and RivalryChapter Three William Faulkner: A Southern Voice in the Age of Modernism Chapter Four Modernism and Popular Culture in the Age of Ezra Pound and James Joyce Chapter Five Midwest Vision and Values: Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather Chapter Six Sounds of the City: Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Anzia Yezierska, Langston HughesChapter Seven History and Mythmakers: Edith Wharton, Stephen Vincent Benet, William Carlos Williams, John Steinbeck NotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Product details

• Authors: Robert Mcparland, McParland Robert
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780810895003
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-9500-3
• No. of pages: 274
• Series: Contemporary American Literature; Contemporary American Literatu; Contemporary American Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form