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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: New York : Harcourt, Brace.Description: XIII, 541 p. 20 cm 20 cmSubject(s): 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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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PS 379 K23o 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000124542

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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