American Fiction 1914 to 1945Harold Bloom This volume brings together a representative selection of the best critical essays on the work of 20 eminent American fiction writers whose principal volumes were published between the two wars. Beginning with Bloom's overview of the best writers of the period--Cather, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Hemingway, and West--the essays examine how writers of the period influenced one other, and what effect they had on American prose fiction, both as individuals and as a group. They also reveal the complexities of the period, including its determinism, new literary styles, and the Afro-American literary tradition. Other writers analyzed include Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, John Steinbeck, Eudora Welty, and Zora Neale Hurston. ISBN 0-87754-962-1 : $49.95. |
Contents
Convention in the Fiction of Edith Wharton | 25 |
Dreisers Trilogy and the Dilemma | 37 |
The Case of Willa Cather | 61 |
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action aesthetic Afro-American American Anderson Ántonia artist beauty becomes beginning behavior Bergson Bundrens called Camera Eye Cather characters coffin consciousness context Cowperwood critics cultural death Diver dreams Dreiser Edith Wharton essay Eudora Welty experience Faulkner feel fiction finally Fitzgerald Gatsby Gatsby's Gertrude Stein Grapes of Wrath Hemingway Hemingway's Henry hero human imagination Jake language Lewis literary literature lives look meaning metaphor metonymy Miller Miss Lonelyhearts moral movement myth narrative narrator Nathanael West nature never Newsreels Nick night novel novelist object passage Passos past pattern present reader reality relation Richard Wright Robert Jordan Robin scene Scott Fitzgerald seems sense sexual Sherwood Anderson social Steinbeck story style Sun Also Rises things Thomas Wolfe Toomer tradition trilogy truth turn University Press vision voice West West's Wharton's Willa Cather Wolfe Wolfe's woman women words Wright writing
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Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism Between the World Wars Rita Keresztesi Limited preview - 2005 |