The word on the streets : the American language of vernacular modernism /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hefner, Brooks E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Americanisms in literature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature) > États-Unis.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
Americanisms in literature
Modernism (Literature)
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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