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Thomas Wolfe and the politics of modernism / Shawn Holliday. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holliday, Shawn, 1969-
- Series:
- American university studies. American literature ; Series XXIV, v. 73.
- American university studies. Thomas Wolfe and the politics of modernism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938--Criticism and interpretation.
- Wolfe, Thomas.
- Autobiographical fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Autobiographical fiction, American.
- Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Autobiographical fiction, American--History and criticism--20th century--United States.
- Politics and literature--History.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 156 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P. Lang, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Once one of the most popular fiction writers in all of American literature, Thomas Wolfe now stands in a tenuous position in the American literary canon. This book combats the academic and critical inertia that currently surrounds Wolfe by exploring his complex relationship to modernism.
- The experimental nature of Wolfe's fiction, his troubling associations with other writers and artists, his complicated publishing practices, and the development of his late political conscience are analyzed to reestablish his importance to this historically avant-garde literary movement and to twentieth-century American literature."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Thomas Wolfe and the Modernist Milieu
- Ch. 1. The Contextualization of Self in Look Homeward, Angel
- Ch. 2. New Generic Possibilities in Of Time and The River
- Ch. 3. The Discourses and Aesthetics of New York Modernism in The Web and The Rock
- Ch. 4. Confronting the Lost Generation in You Can't Go Home Again
- Ch. 5. The Politics of Thomas Wolfe's Short Fiction
- Conclusion: Thomas Wolfe and American Literature After World War II.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-148) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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