Writers for the nation : American literary modernism / C. Barry Chabot.
Writers for the nation : American literary modernism / C. Barry Chabot.
Writers for the nation : American literary modernism / C. Barry Chabot.
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Tuscaloosa ; London : University of Alabama Press, c1997.
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N810.9112/1
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English
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xi, 290 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Van Wyck Brooks and the Varieties of American Literary Modernism -- 2. Willa Cather and the Limits of Memory -- 3. Eliot, Tate, and the Limits of Tradition -- 4. Harlem and the Limits of a Time and Place -- 5. Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Imagination -- 6. The Thirties and the Failure of the...
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Publisher
Tuscaloosa ; London : University of Alabama Press, c1997.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
Through careful readings of a select few authors - including Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, Allen Tate, Jessie Fauset, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Stevens - Chabot demonstrates how these writers understood the social situation, how they proposed to correct it, and how each proposed remedy contained its own limitations. He presents affinities among wri...
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Writers for the nation : American literary modernism / C. Barry Chabot.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-287) and index.
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c1997.
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N810.9112/1
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74VM4pyeQdEb
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0817308776 :
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810.9112
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991001320419702626
