Research guide to American literature. Volume 5, American modernism, 1914-1945 / George Parker Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, George Parker, 1957-

Contributor:

Anderson, George Parker, 1957-

Facts on File, Inc.

Series:

Facts on File library of American literature.

Research Guide to American Literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Research--Methodology--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

American literature.

American literature--History and criticism.

Canon (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 314 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

New ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Facts On File, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The new Research Guide to American Literature is a series of handbooks for students that provides strategies for studying and writing about frequently taught literary topics. Each volume contains dozens of study guides, each of which examines a particular work, author, movement, or theme, providing the necessary background information, suggesting fruitful areas of research, and listing the best secondary sources. American Modernism: 1914-1945 covers American literature during the time of war and economic depression in the first half of the 20th century. Topics covered include

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contributors""; ""Series Introduction""; ""Part I: Overview""; ""Boundaries of the Period""; ""Dominant Genres and Literary Forms""; ""Historical and Social Context""; ""Literary Influences""; ""Evolution of Critical Opinion""; ""Part II: Study Guides on General Topics""; ""African American Literature and Harlem Renaissance""; """"The Essence of a Continent"": The Lyricists of Tin Pan Alley""; ""Family Stories and the Stratemeyer Syndicate""; ""The Great Depression and Proletarian Literature""; ""The Hard-Boiled Detective and the Pulps""

""Modernism and the Changing American Vision""""The New Deal and Writers: American Guides and Living Newspapers""; ""On Trial: American Justice and ""A Good Shoemaker and a Poor Fish-Peddler""""; """"That Ain't the Way the Chinese Behave"": American Identity and the Literature of the Place""; ""Writing for Money: The Saturday Evening Post and the Literary Marketplace""; ""Part III: Study Guides on Works and Writers""; ""Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio""; ""Willa Cather, My Antonia""; ""John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer""; ""T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land""

""William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury""""William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying""; ""F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby""; ""F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night""; ""Robert Frost, North of Boston""; ""Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon""; ""Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour""; ""Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises""; ""Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms""; ""Langston Hughes, The Ways of White Falls""; ""Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God""; ""Ring Lardner, How to Write Short Stories""; ""Sinclair Lewis, Main Street""; ""John O'Hare, Appointment in Samarra""

""Eugene O'Neill, Desire Under the Elms""""Katherine Anne Porter, The Miranda Cycle""; ""John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men""; ""John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath""; ""Wallace Stevens, Harmonium""; ""Jean Toomer, Cane""; ""Eudora Welty, A Curtain of Green""; ""Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust""; ""Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence""; ""Thornton Wilder, Our Town""; ""Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie""; ""William Carlos Williams, Collected Poems, 1921-1931""; ""Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel""; ""Richard Wright, Native Son""; ""Part IV: Annotated Bibliography""

""Part V: Glossary""""Index""

Notes:

"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612793400

9781282793408

1282793403

9780816078653

0816078653

OCLC:

722788428