Tradition and Dream: The English and American Novel from the Twenties to Our TimeDen engelske og amerikanske novelle fra 1920 til 1960 |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 46
Page xix
... literary tradition scarcely existed in English literary theory until it was introduced round about 1917 by two young American poets , T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound , and for them the works that made up the tradition were drawn from all the ...
... literary tradition scarcely existed in English literary theory until it was introduced round about 1917 by two young American poets , T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound , and for them the works that made up the tradition were drawn from all the ...
Page 78
... literary prose in order to express direct intuition . And perhaps a fifth influence should be added : the King James Bible , not for its contents but for its rhythms . Through these influences he learnt to write a prose freer , more ...
... literary prose in order to express direct intuition . And perhaps a fifth influence should be added : the King James Bible , not for its contents but for its rhythms . Through these influences he learnt to write a prose freer , more ...
Page 159
... literary fashion . That this was realized at the time can be seen from Albert Halper's novel of 1933 , Union Square , a novel now of historical interest only . ' What the hell ' , the already disillusioned Communist poet Jason Wheeler ...
... literary fashion . That this was realized at the time can be seen from Albert Halper's novel of 1933 , Union Square , a novel now of historical interest only . ' What the hell ' , the already disillusioned Communist poet Jason Wheeler ...
Contents
British I | 1 |
American | 65 |
The Southern Novel Between the Wars | 108 |
Copyright | |
5 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action Afternoon Men American fiction American novel appeared attitude become behaviour called centre comedy comic Communist Compson consciousness contemporary criticism death described dream Dreiser E. M. Forster Eliot Ellen Glasgow England English novel Eustace everything existence experience expression eyes fantasy father Faulkner feels figure Gatsby George Eliot girl Gopher Prairie hero homosexual human imagination innocent Jane Austen Joyce Lawrence Lewis literary lives Lonigan look means mind Miss Lonelyhearts moral narrator nature Negro never night novelist perhaps political Powys's prose realize relation rendered satire scarcely scene seems sense social society Sons and Lovers South story Studs Studs Lonigan style successful Sutpen symbol theme things thirties tion tradition tragic Ulysses Vile Bodies Virginia whole wife Willa Cather Winesburg woman women Women in Love words writing written young