Realism and the Birth of the Modern United States - Literature, Cinema and Culture

Informationen zum Autor Stanley Corkin is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Cincinnati. Klappentext This book offers an interdisciplinary view of American culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using the conventions of historical study, Stanley Corkin draws out the ways in which the works of writers and filmmakers from 1885 to 1925 shaped and were shaped by the business, politics, and social life of the period. Corkin traces the entrance of the United States into the modern age by considering the historical dimension of cinema and literary aesthetics: first of realism, then naturalism, and finally modernism. Zusammenfassung An interdisciplinary view of American culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using the conventions of historical study, Corkin draws out the ways in which the works of writers and filmmakers from 1885 to 1925 shaped and were shaped by the business, politics, and social life of the period.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Stanley Corkin
• Edition: The University of Georgia Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.01.1996
• EAN: 9780820317304
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-1730-4
• Pages: 256
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie > Politique; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Général, dictionnaires