Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway : language and experience / Ronald Berman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berman, Ronald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American fiction.

Criticism--United States--History--20th century.

Criticism.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940--Criticism and interpretation--History.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Criticism and interpretation--History.

Hemingway, Ernest.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940--Language.

Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972--Knowledge--Literature.

Wilson, Edmund.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (135 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the ""age of jazz."" By focusing specifically on aesthetics - the ways these writers translated everyday reality into language - Berman challenges and redefines many routinely accepted ideas concerning the legacy of these authors. Fitzgerald is generally thought of as a romantic, but Berman shows that we need to expand the idea of Romanticism to include it

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 The Last Romantic Critic; 2 America in Fitzgerald; 3 Edmund Wilson and Alfred North Whitehead; 4 Reality's Thickness; 5 Hemingway's Plain Language; 6 Hemingway's Limits; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-118) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8167-8

OCLC:

614555703