American literature and culture, 1900-1960

American literature and culture, 1900-1960 /

"Say "America" and certain adjectives come readily to mind. Because of the nation's wealth, energy, and global presence during the twentieth century almost everyone has a view of America. This introduction to American literature and culture addresses four common conceptions of th...

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Main Author: McDonald, Gail
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Series:Blackwell introductions to literature ; 16.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1900-1960.
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Américains dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
États-Unis dans la littérature.
American literature.
Civilization.
Literature.
Literature and society.
Kultur
Literatur
Amerikaans.
Bellettrie.
Cultuur.
Maatschappij.
United States > Civilization > 20th century.
United States > In literature.
États-Unis > Civilisation > 20e siècle.
United States.
USA.
Verenigde Staten.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Big : Expansion and its discontents
  • The city
  • Representing nature
  • Apocalypse
  • The sense of place
  • 2. Rich : Weber and Veblen: Reasons to work and reasons to spend
  • USA
  • Work and identity
  • Labor reform
  • Consumption and identity
  • 3. New : Beginning anew: Crevecoeur and Hawthorne
  • Young America
  • Making it new I: literary modernism
  • Making it new II: the other arts
  • 4. Free : The multiple meanings of freedom
  • War and the affirmation of American values
  • Writing war
  • Upstream against the mainstream
  • "An inescapable network of mutuality."

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