Different Dispatches: Journalism in American Modernist ProseIn "Different Dispatches", David Humphries brings together in a new way a diverse group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemmingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee and Robert Penn Warren. He demonstrates how these writers engage journalism in creating innovative texts that address mass culture as well as underlying cultural conditions. The book will be of interest to readers approaching these well-known authors for the first time or for scholars grappling with larger issues of cultural production and reception. |
Contents
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Chapter One The Journalist the Immigrant and Willa Cathers Popular Modernism | 13 |
Chapter Two Sherwood Andersons Imagined Communities | 49 |
Chapter Three The Camera Eye and Reporters Conscience in Ernest Hemingways In Our Time and The Sun Also Rises | 83 |
Chapter Four Divided Identities Desiring Reporters in Zora Neale Hurstons Mules and Men and James Agee and Walker Evanss Let Us Now Praise Fa... | 125 |
Chapter Five Reporting on the New Dawn of ColdWar Culture in Robert Penn Warrens All the Kings Men | 171 |
Notes | 205 |
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Different Dispatches: Journalism in American Modernist Prose David T. Humphries Limited preview - 2006 |
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