| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 532 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-509) and index. |
| Contents |
Age of Eliot: the twenties as waste land / Warren French -- Edith Wharton: the nostalgia for innocence / Eleanor Widmer -- An appointment with the future: Willa Cather / Bernice Slote -- Strange bedfellows: The waste land and An American tragedy / Carol Clancy Harter -- Sherwood Anderson and the lyric story / Eileen Baldeshwiler -- Baroque waste land of James Branch Cabell / Maurice Duke -- Baedekers, Babbittry, and Baudelaire / David G. Pugh -- Ring Lardner: not an escape, but a reflection / Jonas Spatz -- Fun at the incinerating plant: Lardner's wry waste land / Forrest L. Ingram -- Dos Passos in the twenties / A.S. Knowles, Jr. -- Death ship: B. Traven's cradle / Philip Melling -- Becoming of Gertrude Stein's The making of Americans / Kenneth Frieling -- Glenway Wescott's variations on the waste land image / Sy Kahn -- Fitzgerald's Gatsby: the world as ash heap / James E. Miller, Jr. -- Hemingway: the recoil from history / C.W.E. Bigsby -- Phlebas sails the Caribbean: Steinbeck, Hemingway, and the American waste land / Richard Astro -- Faulkner: the way out of the waste land / Gene W. Ruoff -- Sanctuary: Yoknapatawpha's waste land / James E. Miller, Jr. -- Meaning and myth in The sound and fury and The waste land / Lois Gordon -- Renaissance in the twenties / Blyden Jackson -- Jean Toomer's Cane: an issue of genre / Blyden Jackson -- How to read a canto / Max Halperen -- Robert Frost and The waste land / Guy Owen -- E.E. Cummings in the twenties / Bethany K. Dumas -- Eliot as enemy: William Carlos Williams and The waste land / Kenneth Johnson -- Bridge: emotional dynamics of an epic of consciousness / Donald Pease -- Robinson Jeffers' "Tamar" / Robert Demott -- "Archy jumps over the moon" / Dan Jaffe -- Expressionism: the waste land enacted / Jordan Miller -- Other O'Neill / Jordan Miller -- Waste land and the American breakdown / Kingsley Widmer. |
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Introduction / Warren French -- The age of Eliot: the twenties as waste land / Warren French -- Edith Wharton: The nostalgia for innocence / Eleanore Widmer -- An appointment with the future: Willa Cather / Bernice Slote -- Strange bedfellows: "The Waste Land" and "An American Tragedy" / Carol Clancy Harter -- Sherwood Anderson and the lyric story / Eileen Baldeshwiler -- The Baroque waste land of James Branch Cabell / Maurice Duke -- Bedekers, Babbittry, and Baudelaire / David G. Pugh -- Ring Lardner: Not an escape, but a reflection / Jonas Spatz -- Fun at the incinerating plant: Lardner's wry waste land / Forrest L. Ingram -- Dos Passos in the twenties / A. S. Knowles, JR. -- "The Death Ship": B. Traven's Cradle / Philip Melling -- The becoming of Gertrude Stein's "The Making of Americans" / Kenneth Frieling -- Glenway Wescott's variations on the waste land image / Sy Kahn -- Fitzgerald's "Gatsby": The world as ash heap / James E. Miller, JR. -- Hemingway: The recoil from history / C. W. E. Bigsby -- Phlebas sails the Carribean: Steinbeck, Hemingway, and the American waste land / Richard Astro -- "Sanctuary": Yoknapatawpha's waste land / James E. Miller JR. -- Meaning and myth in "The Sound and the Fury" and "The Waste Land" / Lois Gordon -- Renaissance in the twenties / Blyden Jackson -- Jean Toomer's "Cane": An issue of genre / Blyden Jackson -- How to read a canto / Max Halperen -- Robert Frost and "The Waste Land" / Guy Owen -- E. E. Cummings in the twenties / Bethany K. Dumas -- Eliot as enemy: William Carlos Williams and "The Waste Land" / Kenneth Johnson -- "The Bridge": Emotional dynamics of an epic of consciousness / Donald Pease -- Robinson Jeffers' "Tamar" / Robert Demott -- "Archy Jumps Over the Moon" / Dan Jaffe -- Expressionism: the waste land enacted / Jordan Miller -- The other O'Neill / Jordan Miller -- "The Waste Land" and the American breakdown / KIngsley Widmer. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Other Form: |
Online version: French, Warren G., 1922- Twenties. 1st ed. Deland, Fla. : Everett/Edwards, [1975] (OCoLC)643682594 |
| ISBN |
0912112050 : $12.00 |
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9780912112053 |
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