American Modernism

by Barbour, Scott

• ISBN13: 9780737702019
• ISBN10: 073770201X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Greenhaven Pr

Summary

An overview of the literature of American Modernism.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Introduction	p. 11
A History and Overview of American Modernism	p. 13
Defining American Modernism
The Characteristics of Modernism	p. 28
American Modernism Is Distinct from European Modernism	p. 36
The Use of Concrete Words and Images in American Modernism	p. 44
Modernism Expresses Both Historical Discontinuity and a Sense of Tradition	p. 51
The New Poetry
The American Poetic Renaissance: New Freedoms in Subject and Form	p. 56
The Tenets of Imagism: Directness, Conciseness, and Musical Rhythm	p. 64
T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land: The Chief Example of Modernist Poetry	p. 72
The Influence of World War I on American Modernist Poetry	p. 82
American Writers of the 1920s and 1930s
The Lost Generation: Writers in a Time of Transition	p. 91
The American Expatriates Fled a Repressive Society	p. 98
F. Scott Fitzgerald Captured the Spirit of His Generation	p. 104
Ernest Hemingway Used a Precise Style to Depict the Individual in Crisis	p. 112
The Stream-of-Consciousness Technique in American Modernist Fiction	p. 120
Regional Movements: Renaissance in Harlem and the South
The Harlem Renaissance: A Florescence of Creativity	p. 127
The Fugitives, the Agrarians, and the Southern Renaissance	p. 141
Evaluating American Modernists and Their Contribution
American Modernists Revolted Against Genteel Tradition	p. 155
American Modernists Were Defenders of Genteel Tradition	p. 162
Modernism Is an Exclusively White, Western Movement	p. 171
American Modernists Were Intellectually Shallow	p. 178
American Modernists Strove to Improve American Society	p. 188
Chronology	p. 194
For Further Research	p. 197
Index	p. 201
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