| Description |
x, 235 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Chiefly essays presented at the Fifth Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature, Tuscaloosa, Ala., Oct. 19-21, 1978. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Thirties in retrospect / Irving Howe -- Yesterday's road / Josephine Herbst -- Friendship won't stand that : John Howard Lawson and John Dos Passos's struggle for an iIdeological ground to stand on / Townsend Ludington -- James T. Farrell and the 1930s / Donald Pizer -- Steinbeck, the people, and the party / Sylvia Jenkins Cook -- Trouble on the land : Southern literature and the Great Depression / Louis D. Rubin Jr. -- Consciousness of technique : the prose method of James Agee's Let us now praise famous men / Victor A. Kramer -- View from the broom closet of the Regency Hyatt : Richard Wright as a Southern writer / Jack B. Moore -- Starting out in the thirties : Harriette Arnow's literary genesis / Glenda Hobbs -- Oppen, Zukofsky, and the poem as Lens / Hugh Kenner -- Edmund Wilson's political decade / Daniel Aaron -- Revolutionary intellectuals : Partisan review in the 1930s / Alan Wald -- End of a literary decade / James T. Farrell. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Political and social views -- Congresses.
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Authors, American. |
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Political and social views. |
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Literature and society -- United States -- Congresses.
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Literature and society. |
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United States. |
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Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Congresses.
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Depressions. |
| Chronological Term |
1929 |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Bogardus, Ralph F., 1938-
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Hobson, Fred, 1943-
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Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature (5th : 1978 : University of Alabama)
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| ISBN |
0817300791 paperback |
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9780817300791 paperback |
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0817300783 |
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9780817300784 |
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