| Description |
1 online resource (x, 235 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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Thirties in retrospect / Irving Howe -- Yesterday's road / Josephine Herbst -- Friendship won't stand that : John Howard Lawson and John Dos Passos's struggle for an iIdeological ground to stand on / Townsend Ludington -- James T. Farrell and the 1930s / Donald Pizer -- Steinbeck, the people, and the party / Sylvia Jenkins Cook -- Trouble on the land : Southern literature and the Great Depression / Louis D. Rubin Jr. -- Consciousness of technique : the prose method of James Agee's Let us now praise famous men / Victor A. Kramer -- View from the broom closet of the Regency Hyatt : Richard Wright as a Southern writer / Jack B. Moore -- Starting out in the thirties : Harriette Arnow's literary genesis / Glenda Hobbs -- Oppen, Zukofsky, and the poem as Lens / Hugh Kenner -- Edmund Wilson's political decade / Daniel Aaron -- Revolutionary intellectuals : Partisan review in the 1930s / Alan Wald -- End of a literary decade / James T. Farrell |
| Summary |
This collection captures the sense-at times the ordeal-of the 1930's literary experience in America. Fourteen essayists deal with the experience of being a writer in a time of overwhelming economic depression and political ferment, and thereby illuminate the social, political, intellectual, and aesthetic problems and pressures that characterized the experience of American writers and influenced their works. The essays, as a group, constitute a reevaluation of the American literature of the 1930's. At the same time they support and reinforce certain assumptions about the decade |
| Notes |
Chiefly essays presented at the Fifth Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature, Tuscaloosa, Ala., Oct. 19-21, 1978 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references 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 |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Political and social views -- Congresses
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Literature and society -- United States -- Congresses
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Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Congresses
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Authors, American -- Political and social views
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Depressions
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Literature and society
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United States
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bogardus, Ralph F., 1938-
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Hobson, Fred, 1943-
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Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature.
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| LC no. |
81003015 |
| ISBN |
9780817380816 |
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0817380817 |
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