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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765826003321

Autore

Humphries David T.

Titolo

Different dispatches : journalism in American modernist prose / / David T. Humphries

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2006

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, , 2017

©2006

ISBN

9786611081751

9781135506438

1135506434

9781135506360

1135506361

9781281081759

1281081752

9780203959848

0203959841

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Classificazione

LAN008000LIT000000LIT004020

Disciplina

818.520809

Soggetti

American prose literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Press and journalism in literature

Journalists in literature

Popular culture in literature

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Sound of Foxes, the Voice of the Community; Chapter One. The Journalist, the Immigrant, and Willa Cather's Popular Modernism; Chapter Two. Sherwood Anderson's Imagined Communities; Chapter Three. The Camera Eye and Reporter's Conscience in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises; Chapter Four. 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 Five. Reoprting on the New Dawn of Cold-War Culture in



Robert Penn Warren's All the King's MenNotes; Works Cited; Index; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

Brings together a 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. This book demonstrates how these writers engage journalism in creating texts that address mass culture as well as underlying cultural conditions.