| Description |
1 online resource (x, 285 pages) |
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Introduction: slanguage: toward a theory of American vernacular modernism -- "The steady reaching out for new and vivid forms": H.L. Mencken and the American revolution of the word -- "Never mind the comical stuff ... they ain't no joke about this!": Ring Lardner, Anita Loos, and the comic origins of vernacular modernism -- "I didn't understand the words, but my voice was like dynamite": Anzia Yezierska, Mike Gold, and the Jewish American break with realism -- "Say it with lead": Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, and modernism's underworld vernacular -- "The necromancy of language": realist uplift and the urban vernacular in Rudolph Fisher and Claude McKay -- Conclusion: "but mostly U.S.A. is the speech of the people": modernism's familial |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States
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Americanisms in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Americanisms in literature
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Modernism (Literature)
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813940403 |
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0813940400 |
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9780813940427 |
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0813940427 |
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