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On native grounds : an interpretation of modern American prose literature /

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Main Author: Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Harcourt, Brace and World, [1942]
Subjects:
American prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American prose literature > History and criticism.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Prose américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
American literature
American prose literature
Prosa
USA
1900-1999
Geschichte 1890-1940.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The search for reality (1890-1917): The opening struggle for realism
  • American in de siecle
  • Two educations: Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser
  • Progressivism: the superman and the mackrake
  • Progressivism: some insurgent scholars
  • The joyous season
  • part 2. The great liberation (1918-1929): The postwar scene
  • The new realism: Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis
  • The exquisites
  • Elegy and satire: Willa Cather and Ellen Glasgow
  • Liberals and new humanists
  • Into the thirties: all the lost generation
  • part 3. The literature of crisis (1930-1940: The revival of naturalism
  • Criticism at the poles
  • The rhetoric and the agony
  • America! America!