American Modernism
by Phillips, Jerry; Lathbury, RogerFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2005-12-01
Publisher(s): Facts on File
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Summary
- A glossary of terms related to the period - A biographical glossary - Sidebars with extracts from notable works, biographical anecdotes, and more - A timeline of drama and theatrical history, poetry, and prose, and history - Recommended books and websites for further reading - Illustrations of artwork and architecture relating to the literature of the period.
Excerpts
A comprehensive reference guide to the modernist movement in American literature, this volume provides a wealth of information on American modernism, the Lost Generation, modernism in the American novel, the Harlem Renaissance, modernism in poetry and drama, and the literary culture of the Moderns.
Topics include:
Surrealism, expressionism, and Freudian symbolism
The Harlem Renaissance
Modernism in the American novel, poetry, and theater
The Lost Generation
and more.
Writers covered include:
e.e. cummings
W.E.B. Du Bois
T.S. Eliot
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
James Joyce
H.L. Mencken
Marianne Moore
Eugene O'Neill
Ezra Pound
Gertrude Stein
John Steinbeck
William Carlos Williams
Richard Wright
and many others.
Topics include:
Surrealism, expressionism, and Freudian symbolism
The Harlem Renaissance
Modernism in the American novel, poetry, and theater
The Lost Generation
and more.
Writers covered include:
e.e. cummings
W.E.B. Du Bois
T.S. Eliot
William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston
James Joyce
H.L. Mencken
Marianne Moore
Eugene O'Neill
Ezra Pound
Gertrude Stein
John Steinbeck
William Carlos Williams
Richard Wright
and many others.
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