Literature at the barricades : the American writer in the 1930s /

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 depression and political ferment, and thereby illuminate the social, political, intellectual, and...

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Korporativní autor: Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature
Další autoři: Bogardus, Ralph F., 1938-, Hobson, Fred, 1943-
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1982.
Edice:Book collections on Project MUSE.
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=209900
Obsah:
  • Thirties in retrospect / Irving Howe
  • Yesterday's road / Josephine Herbst
  • Friendship won't stand that : John Howard Lawson and John Dos Passos's struggle for an iIdeological ground to stand on / Townsend Ludington
  • James T. Farrell and the 1930s / Donald Pizer
  • Steinbeck, the people, and the party / Sylvia Jenkins Cook
  • Trouble on the land : Southern literature and the Great Depression / Louis D. Rubin Jr.
  • Consciousness of technique : the prose method of James Agee's Let us now praise famous men / Victor A. Kramer
  • View from the broom closet of the Regency Hyatt : Richard Wright as a Southern writer / Jack B. Moore
  • Starting out in the thirties : Harriette Arnow's literary genesis / Glenda Hobbs
  • Oppen, Zukofsky, and the poem as Lens / Hugh Kenner
  • Edmund Wilson's political decade / Daniel Aaron
  • Revolutionary intellectuals : Partisan review in the 1930s / Alan Wald
  • End of a literary decade / James T. Farrell.