The modernist nation : generation, renaissance, and twentieth-century American literature / Michael Soto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soto, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--United States--History--20th century.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

National characteristics, American, in literature.

Conflict of generations in literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Artists in literature.

Beats (Persons).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""Soto is a clever and convincing reader of modernist prose and makes a fair case for the value of the generational model. [His book] beats notions of 'ages' or 'epochs', because it is organic and bridges individual and collective historiography, while also allowing for the non-contemporaneity of the contemporaneous, the coexistence of multiple generations in time and space."" -Modern Language Review ""[The Modernist Nation's] historical span is impressive, ranging from Ralph Waldo Emerson to James Baldwin. . . . One of Soto's contributi

Contents:

Generational rhetoric and American avant-gardism

Renaissance rhetoric and American cultural nationalism

American modernism is born : the rise of the Bohemian artist narrative

The modernist generation : growing up in the American race.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-219) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8050-7

OCLC:

183311628