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1 online resource (xii, 294 pages) : illustrations |
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Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction "A slice of intensified history" -- John Reed as Literary Journalist -- Fact and Fiction in John Reed's Tales -- An Insurgent in Mexico -- Reed against the Great War The Politics of Marketplace Journalism -- Ten Days That Shook the World The Rising Tide of Revolution -- Reed's Literary Legacy -- Appendix -- ""In the German Trenches"" (April 1915) -- ""Back of Billy Sunday"" (May 1915) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Annotation "John Reed and the Writing of Revolution examines Reed's writing from a different critical perspective - one informed by a theoretical and practical understanding of literary nonfiction. In both politics and writing, John Reed defied fashion. In his short career, Reed transcended the traditional creative arts of fiction, poetry, and drama in favor of deeply researched histories composed with the cadence of fiction and the power of fact. Reed thereby alienated literary critics who had idealized timeless artistry against the rough-and-tumble world of historical details and political implications." "Working from a close investigation of rare articles, manuscripts, and the Reed papers at Harvard as well as from Reed's published work, Daniel W. Lehman offers the first detailed literary study of the man who followed Pancho Villa into battle; wrote literary profiles of such characters as Henry Ford, William Jennings Bryan, and Billy Sunday; explicated the Byzantine factionalism of Eastern Europe; and witnessed the storming of the Winter Palace and the birth of Soviet Russia."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-284) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Reed, John, 1887-1920 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Reed, John, 1887-1920 fast |
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Revolutionary literature, American -- History and criticism
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Social problems in literature.
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Literature and society
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Revolutionary literature, American
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Social problems in literature
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Jornalismo literário -- Estados unidos.
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United States
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2002072140 |
| ISBN |
9780821441084 |
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0821441086 |
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9780821414682 |
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0821414682 |
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9780821414675 |
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0821414674 |
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