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The dialect of modernism : race, language, and twentieth-century literature /
The Dialect of Modernism uncovers the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism. Rebelling against the standard language and literature written in it, modernists such as Joseph Conrad, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1994.
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| Colección: | Race and American culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Against the standard : linguistic imitation, racial masquerade, and the modernist rebellion
- The nigger of the "Narcissus" as a preface to modernism
- Modernism's African mask : the Stein-Picasso collaboration
- Old Possum and Brer Rabbit : Pound and Eliot's racial masquerade
- Quashie to Buccra : the linguistic expatriation of Claude McKay
- Race, the American language, and the Americanist avant-garde
- Two strangers in the American language : William Carlos Williams and Jean Toomer
- "Characteristics of Negro expression" : Zora Neale Hurston and the Negro anthology.