Writing the lost generation : expatriate autobiography and American modernism / by Craig Monk.
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TextPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781587297434
- 1587297434
- Autobiography -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Authors, American -- France -- Paris -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism
- Expatriate authors -- France -- Paris -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature)
- Autobiographie -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Écrivains américains -- France -- Paris -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Écrivains américains -- Biographies -- Histoire et critique
- Écrivains expatriés -- France -- Paris -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Modernisme (Littérature)
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric
- REFERENCE -- Writing Skills
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- Authors, American
- Authors, American -- Biography
- Autobiography
- Expatriate authors
- Modernism (Literature)
- France -- Paris
- 1900-1999
- 808.89920694 22
- PS366.A88 M66 2008eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-207) and index.
Introduction: The lost generation and the critical function of autobiography -- Beyond the sermonic tradition -- Self-aggrandizement and expatriate reputation -- Searching for a representative expatriate -- Place as a strategy of attachment -- Patterns of women's stories.
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In Writing the Lost Generation, Craig Monk unlocks a series of neglected texts while reinvigorating our reading of more familiar ones. Well-known autobiographies by Malcolm Cowley, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein are joined here by works from a variety of lesser-known, but still important, expatriate American writers, including Sylvia Beach, Alfred Kreymborg, Samuel Putnam, and Harold Stearns. By bringing together the self-reflective works of the Lost Generation and probing the ways the writers portrayed themselves, Monk provides an exciting and comprehensive overview of modernist expatri.
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