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UNINA9910778373903321 |
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Literature at the barricades : the American writer in the 1930s / / edited by Ralph F. Bogardus and Fred Hobson |
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Tuscaloosa : , : University of Alabama Press, , 1982 |
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©1982 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 235 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BogardusRalph F. <1938-> |
HobsonFred C. <1943-> |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Authors, American - 20th century - Political and social views |
Depressions - 1929 - United States |
Literature and society - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Chiefly essays presented at the Fifth Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature, Tuscaloosa, Ala., Oct. 19-21, 1978. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Writers and Politics: The Challenge of the Social Muse; 1. Irving How: The Thirties in Retrospect; 2. Josephine Herbst: Yesterday's Road; 3. Townsend Ludington: Friendship Won't Stand That; Part II: The Triumph of Literature: Writing is Not Operating a Bombing-Plane; 4. Donald Pizer: James T. Farrell and the 1930's; 5. Sylvia Jenkins Cook: Steinbeck, the People, and the Party; 6. Louis D. Rubin, Jr.: Trouble on the Land; 7. Victor A. Kramer: The Consciousness of Technique |
8. Jack B. Moore: The View from the Broom Closet of the Regency Hyatt 9. Glenda Hobbs: Starting Out in the Thirties; 10. Hugh Kenner: Oppen, Zukofsky, and the Poem as Lens; Part III: Criticism and the 1930's: Trials of the Mind; 11. Daniel Aaron: Edmund Wilson's Political Decade; 12. Alan Wald: Revolutionary Intellectuals; 13. James T. Farrell: The End of a Literary Decade; Notes; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This collection captures the sense-at times the ordeal-of the 1930's literary experience in America. Fourteen essayists deal with the experience of being a writer in a time of overwhelming economic |
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depression and political ferment, and thereby illuminate the social, political, intellectual, and aesthetic problems and pressures that characterized the experience of American writers and influenced their works. The essays, as a group, constitute a reevaluation of the American literature of the 1930's. At the same time they support and reinforce certain assumptions about the decade |
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