Different Dispatches
Journalism in American Modernist Prose
Seiten
2006
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-97675-6 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-97675-6 (ISBN)
Brings together a group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemmingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee, and Robert Penn Warren. This book demonstrates how these writers engage journalism in creating texts that address mass culture as well as underlying cultural conditions.
In "Different Dispatches", David Humphries brings together in a new way a diverse group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemmingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee and Robert Penn Warren. He demonstrates how these writers engage journalism in creating innovative texts that address mass culture as well as underlying cultural conditions. The book will be of interest to readers approaching these well-known authors for the first time or for scholars grappling with larger issues of cultural production and reception.
In "Different Dispatches", David Humphries brings together in a new way a diverse group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemmingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee and Robert Penn Warren. He demonstrates how these writers engage journalism in creating innovative texts that address mass culture as well as underlying cultural conditions. The book will be of interest to readers approaching these well-known authors for the first time or for scholars grappling with larger issues of cultural production and reception.
David T. Humphries
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Journalist, the Immigrant, and Willa Cather’s Popular Modernism; Chapter 2 Sherwood Anderson’s Imagined Communities; Chapter 3 The Camera Eye and Reporter’s Conscience in Ernest Hemingway’s; Chapter 4 Divided Identities, Desiring Reporters in Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men and James Agee and Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Chapter 5 Reporting on the New Dawn of Cold-War Culture in Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men;
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.3.2006 |
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Reihe/Serie | Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 476 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
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Technik ► Maschinenbau | |
ISBN-10 | 0-415-97675-8 / 0415976758 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-97675-6 / 9780415976756 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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