The "Revolt from the Village" in Contemporary American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The "Revolt from the Village" in Contemporary American Literature write by John Kidd Young. This book was released on 1941. The "Revolt from the Village" in Contemporary American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Revolt from the Village, 1915-1930
The Revolt from the Village, 1915-1930 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Revolt from the Village, 1915-1930 write by Anthony Channell Hilfer. This book was released on 2018-08-25. The Revolt from the Village, 1915-1930 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This incisive book traces the attack on American provincialism that ended the myth of the Happy Village. Replacing the idyllic life as a theme, American writers in revolt turned to a more realistic interpretation of the town, stressing its repressiveness, dullness, and conformity. This book analyzes the literary technique employed by these writers and explores their sensibilities to evaluate both their artistic accomplishments and their contributions to American thought and feeling. Originally published 1969. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
"Revolt from the Village"
"Revolt from the Village" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Revolt from the Village" write by Ann Steinecke. This book was released on 1996. "Revolt from the Village" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes]
Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes] write by Linda De Roche. This book was released on 2021-06-04. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context [4 volumes] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This four-volume reference work surveys American literature from the early 20th century to the present day, featuring a diverse range of American works and authors and an expansive selection of primary source materials. Bringing useful and engaging material into the classroom, this four-volume set covers more than a century of American literary history—from 1900 to the present. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context profiles authors and their works and provides overviews of literary movements and genres through which readers will understand the historical, cultural, and political contexts that have shaped American writing. Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context provides wide coverage of authors, works, genres, and movements that are emblematic of the diversity of modern America. Not only are major literary movements represented, such as the Beats, but this work also highlights the emergence and development of modern Native American literature, African American literature, and other representative groups that showcase the diversity of American letters. A rich selection of primary documents and background material provides indispensable information for student research.
Beyond "Main Street"
Beyond "Main Street" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond "Main Street" write by Rachael Ann Price. This book was released on 2016. Beyond "Main Street" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Beyond Main Street" examines the impact and legacy of the literary movement that Carl Van Doren, in an infamous 1920 article from The Nation, referred to as the "revolt from the village." This movement, which is widely acknowledged to encompass such writers as Edgar Lee Masters, Sherwood Anderson, and Sinclair Lewis, pushed back against the primacy of the heretofore-dominant pastoral tradition when it came to depictions of rural America. These authors sought to create a more accurate portrayal of the small town, one that, while not completely eschewing the pastoral, also exposed the more seedy side of village life. Critics typically view this movement (if they view it at all) as one grounded in a very specific time period, usually from around 1915 until about 1930 or so. There is little extant research about the influence of this movement after 1930, and it remains a kind of cultural footnote in the legacy of literary modernism. To say that, after this period, depictions of the small town simply reverted to notions of the pastoral, though, would be oversimplification at best. This project argues that, as with so much of modernism, what began as a flouting of convention developed into an established paradigm. The "revolt" is no longer a "revolt" as such, because its conceptions of small-town America have become a lasting motif in American literature of the twentieth century and beyond. The pastoral image of the village functions now as a kind of simulacrum, an ideal that still permeates the American cultural imagination, but it is rarely given legitimate consideration in literary depictions of individual towns. Rather, I argue, the individual village has become a construction ripe for critique in an increasingly modern and urbanized society. In this project I examine three popular novels from the mid-twentieth century, Henry Bellamann's Kings Row (1940), Grace Metalious's Peyton Place (1956), and Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show (1965), in order to illustrate this paradigm shift which can be traced directly back to the "revolt from the village."
