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Writing the lost generation : expatriate autobiography and American modernism /

In Writing the Lost Generation, Craig Monk unlocks a series of neglected texts while reinvigorating our reading of more familiar ones. Well-known autobiographies by Malcolm Cowley, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein are joined here by works from a variety of lesser-known, but still important, expa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Monk, Craig, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2008.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In Writing the Lost Generation, Craig Monk unlocks a series of neglected texts while reinvigorating our reading of more familiar ones. Well-known autobiographies by Malcolm Cowley, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein are joined here by works from a variety of lesser-known, but still important, expatriate American writers, including Sylvia Beach, Alfred Kreymborg, Samuel Putnam, and Harold Stearns. By bringing together the self-reflective works of the Lost Generation and probing the ways the writers portrayed themselves, Monk provides an exciting and comprehensive overview of modernist expatri.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-207) and index.
ISBN:9781587297434
1587297434