American Literature In Transition 1920 1930

Author : Ichiro Takayoshi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108304801

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American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930 by Ichiro Takayoshi Pdf

American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930 examines the dynamic interactions between social and literary fields during the so-called Jazz Age. It situates the era's place in the incremental evolution of American literature throughout the twentieth century. Essays from preeminent critics and historians analyze many overlapping aspects of American letters in the 1920s and re-evaluate an astonishingly diverse group of authors. Expansive in scope and daring in its mixture of eclectic methods, this book extends the most exciting advances made in the last several decades in the fields of modernist studies, ethnic literatures, African-American literature, gender studies, transnational studies, and the history of the book. It examines how the world of literature intersected with other arts, such as cinema, jazz, and theater, and explores the print culture in transition, with a focus on new publishing houses, trends in advertising, readership, and obscenity laws.

Author : Ichiro Takayoshi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110841821X

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American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 by Ichiro Takayoshi Pdf

American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 examines the dynamic interactions between social and literary fields during the so-called Jazz Age. It situates the era's place in the incremental evolution of American literature throughout the twentieth century. Essays from preeminent critics and historians analyze many overlapping aspects of American letters in the 1920s and re-evaluate an astonishingly diverse group of authors. Expansive in scope and daring in its mixture of eclectic methods, this book extends the most exciting advances made in the last several decades in the fields of modernist studies, ethnic literatures, African-American literature, gender studies, transnational studies, and the history of the book. It examines how the world of literature intersected with other arts, such as cinema, jazz, and theater, and explores the print culture in transition, with a focus on new publishing houses, trends in advertising, readership, and obscenity laws.

Author : Miriam Thaggert,Rachel Farebrother
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108834162

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African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930: Volume 9 by Miriam Thaggert,Rachel Farebrother Pdf

This book analyses historical, literary, and cultural shifts in African American literature from the 1920s-1930s.

Author : Miriam Thaggert,Rachel Farebrother
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1108994369

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African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 by Miriam Thaggert,Rachel Farebrother Pdf

"African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 presents original essays that map ideological, historical, and cultural shifts in the 1920s. Complicating the familiar reading of the 1920s as a decade that began with a spectacular boom and ended with disillusionment and bust, the collection explores the range and diversity of Black cultural production. Emphasizing a generative contrast between the ephemeral qualities of periodicals, clothes, and décor and the relative fixity of canonical texts, this volume captures in its dynamics a cultural movement that was fluid and expansive. Chapters by leading scholars are grouped into four sections: "Habitus, Sound, Fashion"; "Spaces: Chronicles of Harlem and Beyond"; "Uplift Renewed: Religion, Protest, and Education," and "Serial Reading: Magazines and Periodical Culture.""--

Author : Miriam Thaggert,Rachel Farebrother
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108998260

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African American Literature in Transition, 1920–1930: Volume 9 by Miriam Thaggert,Rachel Farebrother Pdf

African American Literature in Transition, 1920-1930 presents original essays that map ideological, historical, and cultural shifts in the 1920s. Complicating the familiar reading of the 1920s as a decade that began with a spectacular boom and ended with disillusionment and bust, the collection explores the range and diversity of Black cultural production. Emphasizing a generative contrast between the ephemeral qualities of periodicals, clothes, and décor and the relative fixity of canonical texts, this volume captures in its dynamics a cultural movement that was fluid and expansive. Chapters by leading scholars are grouped into four sections: 'Habitus, Sound, Fashion'; 'Spaces: Chronicles of Harlem and Beyond'; 'Uplift Renewed: Religion, Protest, and Education,' and 'Serial Reading: Magazines and Periodical Culture.'

Author : Ichiro Takayoshi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108429386

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American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940 by Ichiro Takayoshi Pdf

American Literature in Transition, 1930-1940 gathers together in a single volume preeminent critics and historians to offer an authoritative, analytic, and theoretically advanced account of the Depression era's key literary events. Many topics of canonical importance, such as protest literature, Hollywood fiction, the culture industry, and populism, receive fresh treatment. The book also covers emerging areas of interest, such as radio drama, bestsellers, religious fiction, internationalism, and middlebrow domestic fiction. Traditionally, scholars have treated each one of these issues in isolation. This volume situates all the significant literary developments of the 1930s within a single and capacious vision that discloses their hidden structural relations - their contradictions, similarities, and reciprocities. This is an excellent resource for undergraduate, graduate students, and scholars interested in American literary culture of the 1930s.

Author : Mark W. Van Wienen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1316507696

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American Literature in Transition, 1910-1920 by Mark W. Van Wienen Pdf

Author : Mark W. Van Wienen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108548595

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American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920 by Mark W. Van Wienen Pdf

American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920 offers provocative new readings of authors whose innovations are recognized as inaugurating Modernism in US letters, including Robert Frost, Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H. D., and Marianne Moore. Gathering the voices of both new and established scholars, the volume also reflects the diversity and contradictions of US literature of the 1910s. 'Literature' itself is construed variously, leading to explorations of jazz, the movies, and political writing as well as little magazines, lantern slides, and sports reportage. One section of thematic essays cuts across genre boundaries. Another section oriented to formats drills deeply into the workings of specific media, genres, or forms. Essays on institutions conclude the collection, although a critical mass of contributors throughout explore long-term literary and cultural trends - where political repression, race prejudice, war, and counterrevolution are no less prominent than experimentation, progress, and egalitarianism.

Author : Eve Dunbar,Ayesha K. Hardison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1108560660

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African American Literature in Transition 1930-1940 by Eve Dunbar,Ayesha K. Hardison Pdf

"The volume's first section demonstrates the subtle influence of the Great Depression's devastation on Black literary themes and methodologies by situating more well-known figures within a wide matrix of lesser known writers, thinkers, and cultural workers. In this way, the volume's opening chapters expand our grasp of the literary tradition by foregrounding the manifestation of economic anxieties in the career trajectories of numerous Black writers as well as the subject matter and conventions employed in their various works. Sharon L. Jones proposes in her introductory chapter that we might trace writers' preoccupations with excess and deprivation as emerging as staple tropes of Depression-era writing"--

Author : D. Quentin Miller,Rich Blint
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009188258

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African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990: Volume 15 by D. Quentin Miller,Rich Blint Pdf

African American Literature in Transition, 1980–1990 tracks Black expressive culture in the 1980s as novelists, poets, dramatists, filmmakers, and performers grappled with the contradictory legacies of the civil rights era, and the start of culture wars and policy machinations that would come to characterize the 1990s. The volume is necessarily interdisciplinary and critically promiscuous in its methodologies and objects of study as it reconsiders conventional temporal, spatial, and moral understandings of how African American letters emerged immediately after the movement James Baldwin describes as the 'latest slave rebellion.' As such, the question of the state of America's democratic project as refracted through the literature of the shaping presence of African Americans is one of the guiding concerns of this volume preoccupied with a moment in American literary history still burdened by the legacies of the 1960s, while imagining the contours of an African Americanist future in the new millennium.

Author : Shelly Eversley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108395274

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African American Literature in Transition, 1960–1970: Volume 13 by Shelly Eversley Pdf

This volume considers innovations, transitions, and traditions in both familiar and unfamiliar texts and moments in 1960s African American literature and culture. It interrogates declarations of race, authenticity, personal and collective empowerment, political action, and aesthetics within this key decade. It is divided into three sections. The first section engages poetry and music as pivotal cultural form in 1960s literary transitions. The second section explains how literature, culture, and politics intersect to offer a blueprint for revolution within and beyond the United States. The final section addresses literary and cultural moments that are lesser-known in the canon of African American literature and culture. This book presents the 1960s as a unique commitment to art, when 'Black' became a political identity, one in which racial social justice became inseparable from aesthetic practice.

Author : Chris Vials
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : American literature
ISBN : 131650770X

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American Literature in Transition, 1940-1950 by Chris Vials Pdf

Author : Steven Belletto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : American literature
ISBN : 110840684X

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American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960 by Steven Belletto Pdf

American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960 explores the under-recognized complexity and variety of 1950s American literature by focalizing discussions through a series of keywords and formats that encourage readers to draw fresh connections among literary form and concepts, institutions, cultures, and social phenomena important to the decade. The first section draws attention to the relationship between literature and cultural phenomena that were new to the 1950s. The second section demonstrates the range of subject positions important in the 1950s, but still not visible in many accounts of the era. The third section explores key literary schools or movements associated with the decade, and explains how and why they developed at this particular cultural moment. The final section focuses on specific forms or genres that grew to special prominence during the 1950s. Taken together, the chapters in the four sections not only encourage us to rethink familiar texts and figures in new lights, but they also propose new archives for future study of the decade.

Author : Ann Massa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315535524

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American Literature in Context by Ann Massa Pdf

First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation’s literature has developed. Covering the years from 1900 to 1930, this fourth volume of American Literature in Context focuses on how American literature dealt with the challenges of the period including the First World War and the stock market crash. It examines key writers of the time such as Henry James, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F Scott Fitzgerald and Eugene O’Neill who, unlike many Americans who sought escape, confronted reality, providing a rich and varied literature that reflects these turbulent years. This book will be of interest to those studying American literature and American studies.

Author : Andrew Hook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315535807

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American Literature in Context by Andrew Hook Pdf

First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation’s literature has developed. Covering the years from 1865 to 1900, this third volume of American Literature in Context focuses on the struggles of American writers to make sense of their rapidly changing world. In addition to such major figures as Walt Whitman, Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Mark Twain, it analyses the writings of an unorthodox economist (Henry George), a Utopian reformer (Edward Bellamy) and a critical sociologist (Thorstein Veblen). Particular attention is paid to the challenge to conventional literary and cultural values represented by writers such as William Dean Howell who pursued a new form of scientific, democratic realism in American writing. This book will be of interest to those studying American literature and American studies.