The Word on the Streets : The American Language of Vernacular Modernism /

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Hefner, Brooks E. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Modernism (Literature)
Americanisms in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Modernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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