On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose LiteratureThis book is an interpretation of modern American prose and experience. It attemps to trace the course of modern literature in America from its beginnings in the 1890's down to the present period. |
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THE SEARCH FOR REALITY 18901917 | 1 |
American Fin de Siècle | 51 |
Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser | 73 |
Copyright | |
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On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature Alfred Kazin Limited preview - 2013 |
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American literature American writers Anderson artist Babbitt became become believe bitterness Brooks Brooks's Cabell character civilization contemporary crisis culture curious Dreiser Edith Wharton Ellen Glasgow Emerson essay esthetic Europe European everything experience Faulkner Fitzgerald force Frank Norris gave H. L. Mencken Hemingway Hemingway's Henry James hero Howells human ideal imagination intellectual intensity interest John knew Lewis Lewisohn liberal literary lived Mark Twain marked Marxist Marxist criticism Mencken merely mind modern American moral muckraking naturalism naturalist never Norris novel novelists once Parrington passion Passos period poetry political postwar prose Randolph Bourne realism revolt romantic romanticism scene seemed sense sensibility sentimental Sherwood Anderson significant Sinclair social Socialist society spirit Stephen Crane story struggle style symbol T. S. Eliot taste thing thirties thought tion tradition twenties Van Wyck Brooks Veblen whole Willa Willa Cather Wolfe wrote young
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