Different Dispatches: Journalism in American Modernist Prose (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415976756)

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.

Author: David T. Humphries
ISBN-10: 0415976758
ISBN-13: 9780415976756
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/09/2006
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.14w x 0.81d