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Writing the Lost Generation - Expatriate Autobiography and American Modernism

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Craig Monk is associate dean in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and an associate professor of English at the University of Lethbridge! Lethbridge! Alberta! Canada. Klappentext In "Writing the Lost Generation," Craig Monk unlocks a series of neglected texts while reinvigorating our reading of more familiar ones. Well-known autobiographies by Malcolm Cowley, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein are joined here by works from a variety of lesser-known--but still important--expatriate American writers, including Sylvia Beach, Alfred Kreymborg, Samuel Putnam, and Harold Stearns. By bringing together the self-reflective works of the Lost Generation and probing the ways the writers portrayed themselves, Monk provides an exciting and comprehensive overview of modernist expatriates from the United States. Zusammenfassung Members of the Lost Generation! American writers and artists who lived in Paris during the 1920s! occupy an important place in literary history. This title provides a comprehensive overview of modernist expatriates from the United States.

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Authors Craig Monk
Publisher University Of Iowa Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.09.2008
 
EAN 9781587296895
ISBN 978-1-58729-689-5
No. of pages 213
Dimensions 146 mm x 248 mm x 19 mm
Subjects Fiction > Mixed anthologies
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies

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