LEADER 03772nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910778373903321 005 20231005224602.0 010 $a0-8173-8081-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000479987 035 $a(EBL)438132 035 $a(OCoLC)183306939 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000193152 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11166260 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193152 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10238275 035 $a(PQKB)10200219 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8652 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL438132 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10387766 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC438132 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000479987 100 $a19810413h19821982 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aLiterature at the barricades $ethe American writer in the 1930s /$fedited by Ralph F. Bogardus and Fred Hobson 210 1$aTuscaloosa :$cUniversity of Alabama Press,$d1982. 210 4$aŠ1982 215 $a1 online resource (x, 235 pages) 300 $aChiefly essays presented at the Fifth Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature, Tuscaloosa, Ala., Oct. 19-21, 1978. 311 0 $a0-8173-0078-3 311 0 $a0-8173-0079-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a8. 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 330 $aThis 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 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 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism$vCongresses 606 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$xPolitical and social views$vCongresses 606 $aDepressions$y1929$zUnited States$vCongresses 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$vCongresses 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAuthors, American$xPolitical and social views 615 0$aDepressions 615 0$aLiterature and society 676 $a810/.9/0052 701 $aBogardus$b Ralph F.$f1938-$01577532 701 $aHobson$b Fred C.$f1943-$01572792 712 12$aAlabama Symposium on English and American Literature 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778373903321 996 $aLiterature at the barricades$93856177 997 $aUNINA