Author: Aaron Shaheen
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1621907139
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Part 1: Chronicling war and its aftermath -- Part 2: Chronicling American commerical culture: Manhattan transfer -- Part 3: Chronicling political ambivalence in the age of totalitarianism -- Part 4: Chronicling the America-Europe divide.
John Dos Passos's Transatlantic Chronicling
Author: Aaron Shaheen
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1621907139
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Part 1: Chronicling war and its aftermath -- Part 2: Chronicling American commerical culture: Manhattan transfer -- Part 3: Chronicling political ambivalence in the age of totalitarianism -- Part 4: Chronicling the America-Europe divide.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1621907139
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Part 1: Chronicling war and its aftermath -- Part 2: Chronicling American commerical culture: Manhattan transfer -- Part 3: Chronicling political ambivalence in the age of totalitarianism -- Part 4: Chronicling the America-Europe divide.
John Dos Passos's Transatlantic Chronicling
Author: Aaron Shaheen
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1621907147
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
“I never could keep the world properly divided into gods and demons for very long,” wrote John Dos Passos, whose predilection toward nuance and tolerance brought him to see himself as a “chronicler”: a writer who might portray political situations and characters but would not deliberately lead the reader to a predetermined conclusion. Privileging the tangible over the ideological, Dos Passos’s writing between the two World Wars reveals the enormous human costs of modern warfare and ensuing political upheavals. This wide-ranging and engaging collection of essays explores the work of Dos Passos during a time that challenged writers to find new ways to understand and render the unfolding of history. Taking their foci from a variety of disciplines, including fashion, theater, and travel writing, the contributors extend the scholarship on Dos Passos beyond his best-known U.S.A. trilogy. Including scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, the volume takes on such topics as how writers should position their labor in relation to that of blue-collar workers and how Dos Passos’s views of Europe changed from fascination to disillusionment. Examinations of the Modernist’s Adventures of a Young Man, Manhattan Transfer, and “The Republic of Honest Men” increase our understanding of the work of a complicated figure in American literature, set against a backdrop of rapidly evolving technology, growing religious skepticism, and political turmoil in the wake of World War I.
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1621907147
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
“I never could keep the world properly divided into gods and demons for very long,” wrote John Dos Passos, whose predilection toward nuance and tolerance brought him to see himself as a “chronicler”: a writer who might portray political situations and characters but would not deliberately lead the reader to a predetermined conclusion. Privileging the tangible over the ideological, Dos Passos’s writing between the two World Wars reveals the enormous human costs of modern warfare and ensuing political upheavals. This wide-ranging and engaging collection of essays explores the work of Dos Passos during a time that challenged writers to find new ways to understand and render the unfolding of history. Taking their foci from a variety of disciplines, including fashion, theater, and travel writing, the contributors extend the scholarship on Dos Passos beyond his best-known U.S.A. trilogy. Including scholars from both sides of the Atlantic, the volume takes on such topics as how writers should position their labor in relation to that of blue-collar workers and how Dos Passos’s views of Europe changed from fascination to disillusionment. Examinations of the Modernist’s Adventures of a Young Man, Manhattan Transfer, and “The Republic of Honest Men” increase our understanding of the work of a complicated figure in American literature, set against a backdrop of rapidly evolving technology, growing religious skepticism, and political turmoil in the wake of World War I.
The Cambridge History of American Modernism
Author: Mark Whalan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108808026
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
The Cambridge History of American Modernism examines one of the most innovative periods of American literary history. It offers a comprehensive account of the forms, genres, and media that characterized US modernism: coverage ranges from the traditional, such as short stories, novels, and poetry, to the new media that shaped the period's literary culture, such as jazz, cinema, the skyscraper, and radio. This volume charts how recent methodologies such as ecocriticism, geomodernism, and print culture studies have refashioned understandings of the field, and attends to the contestations and inequities of race, sovereignty, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity that shaped the period and its cultural production. It also explores the geographies and communities wherein US modernism flourished-from its distinctive regions to its metropolitan cities, from its hemispheric connections to the salons and political groupings that hosted new cultural collaborations.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108808026
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
The Cambridge History of American Modernism examines one of the most innovative periods of American literary history. It offers a comprehensive account of the forms, genres, and media that characterized US modernism: coverage ranges from the traditional, such as short stories, novels, and poetry, to the new media that shaped the period's literary culture, such as jazz, cinema, the skyscraper, and radio. This volume charts how recent methodologies such as ecocriticism, geomodernism, and print culture studies have refashioned understandings of the field, and attends to the contestations and inequities of race, sovereignty, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity that shaped the period and its cultural production. It also explores the geographies and communities wherein US modernism flourished-from its distinctive regions to its metropolitan cities, from its hemispheric connections to the salons and political groupings that hosted new cultural collaborations.
Mediating Modernity
Author: Stefanie Harris
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271047151
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"An interdisciplinary examination of the responses of literary authors in Germany, from 1895-1930, to the emerging media of image and sound recording"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271047151
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
"An interdisciplinary examination of the responses of literary authors in Germany, from 1895-1930, to the emerging media of image and sound recording"--Provided by publisher.
Brazil on the Move
Author: John Dos Passos
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9781569249581
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
After witnessing two decades of political, economic, and social upheaval in Brazil, the author gives a first-hand account of the changes that prepared the ground for the Brazil we know today
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9781569249581
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
After witnessing two decades of political, economic, and social upheaval in Brazil, the author gives a first-hand account of the changes that prepared the ground for the Brazil we know today
The Princeton University Library Chronicle
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Vol.1- includes section "Biblia, devoted to the interests of the Friends of the Princeton Library," v.11-
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Vol.1- includes section "Biblia, devoted to the interests of the Friends of the Princeton Library," v.11-
Journeys Between Wars
Author: John Dos Passos
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace
ISBN:
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Sound Recording Technology and American Literature
Author: Jessica Teague
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108840132
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2013.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108840132
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2013.
Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture
Author: Aaron Shaheen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198857780
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America in the years during and after the First World War. The war's mechanized weaponry ushered in an entirely new relationship between organic bodies and the technology that could both cause, and attempt to remedy, hideous injuries. Such a relationship was also evident in the realm of prosthetic development, which by the second decade of the twentieth century promoted the belief that a prosthesis should be a spiritual extension of the person who possessed it. This spiritualized vision of prostheses proved particularly resonant in American postwar culture. Relying on some of the most recent developments in literary and disability studies, the book's six chapters explain how a prosthesis's spiritual promise was largely dependent on its ability to nullify an injury and help an amputee renew or even improve upon his prewar life. But if it proved too cumbersome, obtrusive, or painful, the device had the long-lasting power to efface or distort his 'spirit' or personality.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198857780
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Drawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America in the years during and after the First World War. The war's mechanized weaponry ushered in an entirely new relationship between organic bodies and the technology that could both cause, and attempt to remedy, hideous injuries. Such a relationship was also evident in the realm of prosthetic development, which by the second decade of the twentieth century promoted the belief that a prosthesis should be a spiritual extension of the person who possessed it. This spiritualized vision of prostheses proved particularly resonant in American postwar culture. Relying on some of the most recent developments in literary and disability studies, the book's six chapters explain how a prosthesis's spiritual promise was largely dependent on its ability to nullify an injury and help an amputee renew or even improve upon his prewar life. But if it proved too cumbersome, obtrusive, or painful, the device had the long-lasting power to efface or distort his 'spirit' or personality.
U.S.A.
Author: John Dos Passos
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1484
Book Description