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Toward a Modernist Style: John Dos Passos (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781623561185)
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xA new appraisal of Dos Passos's work and life, Toward a Modernist Style describes both the central currents in his early work, and his full participation in literary modernism, culminating in his U.S.A. trilogy, as well as the relationship of these currents to those of an especially vibrant period in American expression.
Donald Pizer charts the evolution of Dos Passos's artistic sensibility from its largely conventional expression at the start of the 1920s to the radical formal experimentation of U.S.A. at its close. He places this development in Dos Passos's writing in the context of contemporary ideas about art and society. Pizer also looks at the important roles that Dos Passos's expatriation and his relationship with Ernest Hemingway played in his work as well as his efforts as a painter and their relationship to his literary art.
Toward a Modernist Style is both an incisive guide to a major American modernist as well as an exploration of the wider currents that created literary modernism in the early twentieth century.
Author: Donald Pizer
ISBN-10: 1623561183
ISBN-13: 9781623561185
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2013
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2014
Donald Pizer charts the evolution of Dos Passos's artistic sensibility from its largely conventional expression at the start of the 1920s to the radical formal experimentation of U.S.A. at its close. He places this development in Dos Passos's writing in the context of contemporary ideas about art and society. Pizer also looks at the important roles that Dos Passos's expatriation and his relationship with Ernest Hemingway played in his work as well as his efforts as a painter and their relationship to his literary art.
Toward a Modernist Style is both an incisive guide to a major American modernist as well as an exploration of the wider currents that created literary modernism in the early twentieth century.
Author: Donald Pizer
ISBN-10: 1623561183
ISBN-13: 9781623561185
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2013
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2014
By Donald Pizer
xDonald Pizer is the Pierce Butler Professor of English Emeritus at Tulane University, USA. He is the editor of 11 books, including The Novels of Theodore Dreiser: A Critical Study (1976), Dos Passos' U.S.A.: A Critical Study (1988), and American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment: Modernism and Place (1996) and the editor of 22 books, including Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos, edited with an introduction, a Signet Classic (1997). His awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Lectureship (University of Hamburg) and a National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship.
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