John Dos Passos's Transatlantic Chronicling : Critical Essays on the Interwar Years / edited by Aaron Shaheen and Rosa María Bautista Cordero.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shaheen, Aaron, editor.

Bautista-Cordero, Rosa María, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political and social views.

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970--Criticism and interpretation.

Dos Passos, John.

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970--Political and social views.

Genre:

Essays.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville, Tennessee : The University of Tennessee Press, [2022]

Summary:

"This edited collection explores the wartime writings of John Dos Passos. Dos Passos's writings, set against a backdrop of rapidly evolving technology, growing religious skepticism, and political turmoil in the wake of World War I, focus widely on the costs of modern warfare. Contributors in this collection, including both scholars from North America and Dos Passos's native Spain, unpack Dos Passos's novels, essays, and stage plays written during the interwar years between the world wars"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. The Raw Structure of History

Part 1: Chronicling War and its Aftermath

1. Warring Bodies: World War I Burial Practices in John Dos Passos's One Man's Initiation: 1917 and 1919

2. The Lost Generation and US Transatlantic Imperialism in 1919

3. Glenn Spotswood as Cannon Fodder: Myth vs. Reality at the International Brigades

Part 2: Chronicling American Commercial Culture: Manhattan Transfer

4. The Hat in Manhattan Tranfer: A Jazz Age Tale of the Man in the Straw Hat and the Arrow Collar

5. Between a Novelist and a Chronicler: John Dos Passos in Manhattan Transfer

6. Avatars of the American Dream: Manhattan Transfer, King Vidor's The Crowd, and Modernity

Part 3: Chronicling Political Ambivalence in the Age of Totalitarianism

7. John Dos Passos and the Russian Theatre, 1928

8. Dos Passos and the Promise and Failures of the Second Spanish Republic, 1933

9. Representing Authors as Producers: Labor and the New Deal Intellectual in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. Trilogy

Part 4: Chronicling the America-Europe Divide

10. Transatlantic Tensions: Changing View of Europe and the United States in Dos Passos's Interwar Writings

11. "Root Striking into the Infinite Past": John Dos Passos's Quest for the Modernist Cosmopolitan Subject in Rosinante to the Road Again

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781621907145

1621907147