Edition |
[1st ed.] |
Description |
289 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents |
The city novel as a literary genre: -- Intention -- Form, setting, and language -- Themes -- The sociology of city life: -- The subway -- The city -- Theodore Dreiser: the portrait novel: -- The personal discovery of the city -- The tragic pattern of inner defeat -- Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, and Thomas Wolfe: -- Three literary views of the city -- A novel of becoming -- The destructive element in "Fashionable New York" -- The city as symbol -- John Dos Passos: the synoptic novel: -- The novelist as "Architect of history" -- Technique as social commentary in Manhattan Transfer -- The fulfillment of form in U.S.A. -- James T. Farrell: the ecological novel: -- Theory and form -- Character and milieu -- Structure and style -- Recent trends: 1943-1953: -- The novel of sentiment and the novel of violence -- "Tomorrow will be better" -- "But what of the city's back yard, and the alley?". |
Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Cities and towns in literature.
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Cities and towns in literature. |
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