Different Dispatches: Journalism in American Modernist Prose

ISBN-13: 9780415976756 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 258 str.

David T. Humphries

Opis

Brings together a group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee, and Robert Penn Warren. This book demonstrates how these writers engage journalism in creating texts that address mass culture as well as underlying cultural conditions.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Journalist, the Immigrant, and Willa Cather’s Popular Modernism; Chapter 2 Sherwood Anderson’s Imagined Communities; Chapter 3 The Camera Eye and Reporter’s Conscience in Ernest Hemingway’s; Chapter 4 Divided Identities, Desiring Reporters in Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men and James Agee and Walker Evans’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Chapter 5 Reporting on the New Dawn of Cold-War Culture in Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men;

O autorze

David T. Humphries