Toward a Modernist Style: John Dos Passos

Name: Toward a Modernist Style: John Dos Passos
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ISBN: 9781623561185

ISBN-10: 1623561183

ISBN-13: 9781623561185

Edition: 2013

Authors: Donald Pizer

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A 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…

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List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 12/19/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Donald Pizer, Pierce Butler Professor of English Emeritus at Tulane University, has published widely on late 19th- and early 20th-century American literature. His books include The Novels of Theodore Dreiser: A Critical Study (1976) and The Theory and Practice of American Literary Naturalism (1993).