The word on the streets : the American language of vernacular modernism /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2017.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: slanguage: toward a theory of American vernacular modernism
- "The steady reaching out for new and vivid forms": H.L. Mencken and the American revolution of the word
- "Never mind the comical stuff ... they ain't no joke about this!": Ring Lardner, Anita Loos, and the comic origins of vernacular modernism
- "I didn't understand the words, but my voice was like dynamite": Anzia Yezierska, Mike Gold, and the Jewish American break with realism
- "Say it with lead": Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, and modernism's underworld vernacular
- "The necromancy of language": realist uplift and the urban vernacular in Rudolph Fisher and Claude McKay
- Conclusion: "but mostly U.S.A. is the speech of the people": modernism's familial.