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Toward a Modernist Style: John Dos Passos
Professor Donald Pizer
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Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 10 color illustrations 3 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 138 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
A new appraisal of Dos Passos's work and life, Toward a Modernist Style describes both the central currents in his early work, and his full participation in literary modernism, culminating in his U.S.A. trilogy, as well as the relationship of these currents to those of an especially vibrant period in American expression. Donald Pizer charts the evolution of Dos Passos's artistic sensibility from its largely conventional expression at the start of the 1920s to the radical formal experimentation of U.S.A. at its close. He places this development in Dos Passos's writing in the ... Read more
A new appraisal of Dos Passos's work and life, Toward a Modernist Style describes both the central currents in his early work, and his full participation in literary modernism, culminating in his U.S.A. trilogy, as well as the relationship of these currents to those of an especially vibrant period in American expression. Donald Pizer charts the evolution of Dos Passos's artistic sensibility from its largely conventional expression at the start of the 1920s to the radical formal experimentation of U.S.A. at its close. He places this development in Dos Passos's writing in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781623564438
SKU
V9781623564438
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About Professor Donald Pizer
Donald Pizer is the Pierce Butler Professor of English Emeritus at Tulane University, USA. He is the editor of 11 books, including The Novels of Theodore Dreiser: A Critical Study (1976), Dos Passos' U.S.A.: A Critical Study (1988), and American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment: Modernism and Place (1996) and the editor of 22 books, including Three Soldiers ... Read more
Reviews for Toward a Modernist Style: John Dos Passos
Donald Pizer is not only a consistently reliable guide to the literature of John Dos Passos, he offers an unmatched depth of critical understanding. Pizer digs to the heart of the matter, focusing squarely on Dos Passos and his world, too sure of himself and his method to need flourishes of this year’s critical theory for support. This volume shows ... Read more