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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476799903321

Autore

Humphries David T.

Titolo

Different Dispatches : Journalism in American Modernist Prose / / David T. Humphries

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2006

©2006

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 pages)

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Journalist, the Immigrant, and Willa Cather's Popular Modernism; Chapter 2 Sherwood Anderson's Imagined Communities; Chapter 3 The Camera Eye and Reporter's Conscience in Ernest Hemingway's; Chapter 4 Divided Identities, Desiring Reporters in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men and James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Chapter 5 Reporting on the New Dawn of Cold-War Culture in Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men.

Sommario/riassunto

In "Different Dispatches", David Humphries brings together in a new way a diverse group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemmingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee and Robert Penn Warren. He demonstrates how these writers engage journalism in creating innovative texts that address mass culture as well as underlying cultural conditions. The book will be of interest to readers approaching these well-known authors for the first time or for scholars grappling with larger issues of cultural production and reception.