American and European Literary Imagination - Image 1

£47.81

Routledge American and European Literary Imagination

Name: American and European Literary Imagination
Brand: Routledge
Price: 44.95 GBP
Availability: InStock

Literary Theory & Movements

Price History & Forecast

Last 88 days • 88 data points

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 88 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £48 (63 days, 71.6%)

Price range: £45 - £48

Price levels: 2 different prices over 88 days

Description

Western culture is composed of a subtle and complex mixture of influences: religious, philosophical, linguistic, political, social, and sociological. American culture is a particular strain, but unless European antecedents and contemporary leanings are duly noted, any resulting history is predestined to provincialism and distortion. In his account of American literature during the period 1919 to 1932, McCormick deals with the extraordinary work of artists who wrested imaginative order from a world in which the abyss was never out of sight.McCormick's volume is intended as a critical, rather than encyclopedic history of literature on both sides of the Atlantic between the end of World War I and the political and social crises that arose in the 1930s. Although he emphasizes American writers, the emergence of a vital and distinctly modern American literature is located in the cultural encounter with Europe and the rejection of national bias by the major figures of the period.McCormick deals with Gertrude Stein and the mythology of the "lost generation," the tensions and ambivalences of traditionalism and modernity in the work of Sherwood Anderson and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the effect and qualities of Hemingway's style as compared to that of Henry de Montherlant, and the provincial iconoclasm of Sinclair Lewis juxtaposed with the more telling satire of Italo Svevo. The formal innovations in the work of John Dos Passos, E.E. Cummings, and William Faulkner, the poetic revolution against cultural parochialism and genteel romanticism is given extensive consideration with regard to the work of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore are also discussed. The concluding chapters discuss literary and social criticism and assess the influence of psychoanalysis, philosophical pragmatism, and radical historiography on the intellectual climate of the period.Teachers and students in English and American Literature, American History, and Comparative Literature, and the general reader interested in the writing of the period, may gain new insights from these valuations, devaluations, and re-evaluations.

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0765806355
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 31 August 2000
Listed Since: 23 December 2006

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge American and European Literary Imagination

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Vladimir Nabokov – The Russian Years

Conversations with W. S. Merwin (Literary Conversations Series)

Writers and Thinkers: Selected Literary Criticism

American Literary Magazines: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Historical Guides to the World's Periodicals and Newspapers)

America and Other Myths: Photographs by Robert Frank and Todd Webb, 1955

Marge and Julia: The Correspondence Between Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Julia Scribner Bigham

Rethinking Tradition in English Language and Literary Studies

Rose Macaulay, Gender, and Modernity (Gender and Genre)

Emerging Perspectives on Alobwed’Epie

Magill's Literary Annual 2008 (Magill's Literary Annual)

Artful Itineraries: European Art and American Careers in High Culture, 1865-1920 (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

The Passionate Mind: Sources of Destruction and Creativity

A History of Modern Poetry, Volume I: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode

Current Issues in Energy: A Selection of Papers

Randall Jarrell and His Age

Conversations with Robert Penn Warren (Literary Conversations)

Lyric Orientations: Hölderlin, Rilke, and the Poetics of Community (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought)

Values of Literature: 278 (Philosophy, Literature, and Politics, 278)

1913: The Cradle of Modernism

Writing the Modern City: Literature, Architecture, Modernity

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, 1818-2018

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation

Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity, 1780-1850: Subjects, Texts, and Print Culture (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)

Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital (Post*45)