Modern American Literature:

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 l...

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1. Verfasser: Morley, Catherine (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature : ECGL
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Zusammenfassung: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 landscapeExtends the timeframe, definition and intellectual parameters of American modernismProvides 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/p›
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (352 pages)
ISBN:9780748630721
DOI:10.1515/9780748630721

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