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

By:

Kazin, Alfred

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: New York : Harcourt, Brace.Description: XIII, 541 p. 20 cm 20 cmSubject(s):

Literatura estadounidense -- Historia y crítica

DDC classification:

810.9

LOC classification:

PS 379 K23o 1995

Contents:

pt. 1. The search for reality (1890-1917): The opening struggle for realism -- American fin de siècle -- Two educations: Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser -- Progressivism: the superman and the muckrake -- Progressivism: some insurgent scholars -- The joyous season -- pt. 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 -- pt. 3. The literature of crisis (1930-1940): The revival of naturalism -- Criticism at the poles -- The rhetoric and the agony -- America! America!

Summary: A classic interpretation of literature from America's golden age-including the work of Howells, Wharton, Lewis, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner. New Preface by the Author; Index.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	PS 379 K23o 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000124542

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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.

pt. 1. The search for reality (1890-1917): The opening struggle for realism --
American fin de siècle --
Two educations: Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser --
Progressivism: the superman and the muckrake --
Progressivism: some insurgent scholars --
The joyous season --
pt. 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 --
pt. 3. The literature of crisis (1930-1940): The revival of naturalism --
Criticism at the poles --
The rhetoric and the agony --
America! America!

A classic interpretation of literature from America's golden age-including the work of Howells, Wharton, Lewis, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Faulkner. New Preface by the Author; Index.

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