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After the lost generation : a critical study of the writers of two wars /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aldridge, John W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Noonday Press, 1958.
Subjects:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • [Lost generation]
  • Disillusion and separate peace
  • Exile
  • Hemingway : nightmare and the correlative of loss
  • Fitzgerald : the horror and the vision of paradise
  • Dos Passos : the energy of despair
  • [New writers of the forties]
  • Search of values
  • Neo-Hemingways : and the failure of protest
  • Vance Bourjaily : two worlds of Skinner Galt
  • Mailer, Burns, and Shaw : naked zero
  • Merle Miller : journalist of sham
  • Gore Vidal : search for a king
  • Paul Bowles : cancelled sky
  • Capote and Buechner : escape into otherness
  • The younger writer in America.