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Modern American Literature
Contributor(s): Morley, Catherine (Author)

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ISBN: 0748625070     ISBN-13: 9780748625079
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 810.900
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Series: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" L (1.05 lbs) 352 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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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 landscape
  • Extends the timeframe, definition and intellectual parameters of American modernism
  • Provides 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
 
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