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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451926603321

Autore

Soto Michael

Titolo

The modernist nation [[electronic resource] ] : generation, renaissance, and twentieth-century American literature / / Michael Soto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8173-8050-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/005

Soggetti

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - United States

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - United States - History - 20th century

National characteristics, American, in literature

Conflict of generations in literature

Nationalism in literature

Artists in literature

Beat generation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references  (p. [203]-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Generational rhetoric and American avant-gardism -- Renaissance rhetoric and American cultural nationalism -- American modernism is born : the rise of the Bohemian artist narrative -- The modernist generation : growing up in the American race.

Sommario/riassunto

""Soto is a clever and convincing reader of modernist prose and makes a fair case for the value of the generational model.   [His book] beats notions of 'ages' or 'epochs', because it is organic and bridges individual and collective historiography, while also allowing for the non-contemporaneity of the contemporaneous, the coexistence of multiple generations in time and space.""  -Modern Language Review   ""[The Modernist Nation's] historical span is impressive, ranging from Ralph Waldo Emerson to James Baldwin. . . . One of Soto's contributi