Kirk Curnutt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1160022 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirk Curnutt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirk |
| FAMILY NAME | Curnutt |
| SIGNATURE | CURNUTT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Troy University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0654-3543 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald
This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald offers both new and familiar readers an authoritative guide to the full scope of Fitzgerald's literary legacy. Gathering the critical insights of leading Fitzgerald specialists, it includes newly commissioned essays on The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald's judgment of his peers, and Fitzgerald's screenwriting and Hollywo…
The Sociable City
News from the metropolis is invariably bad: from Jacob Riis's tenement photojournalism to the slums in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) to the blight of the Valley of Ashes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) and onward to the gang violence of Irving Shulman's The Amboy Dukes (1947), Walter Hill's 1979 film adaptation of Sol Yurick's The Warriors (1965) and, most recently, to the Hobbesian housing politics of David Simon's Hbo…
American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980
American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980 examines the literary developments of the twentieth-century's gaudiest decade. For a quarter century, filmmakers, musicians, and historians have returned to the era to explore the legacy of Watergate, stagflation, and Saturday Night Fever, uncovering the unique confluence of political and economic phenomena that make the period such a baffling time. Literary historians have never shown much interest in…
American Literature in Transition, 1970-1980
Perfectly Average
As Anna G. Creadick demonstrates in this brisk, persuasive study, the idea of the “perfectly average” life represented a post–World War II reaction to the dual upheavals of the depression and the war. It reflected a desire for middle-class stability, one made affordable by the relative prosperity of the late 1940s and early 1950s and codified by popular life-style discourse. It became an institutional gauge for health and character, fashion and t…
Real Phonies
Journal Article Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post–World War II America Get access Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post–World War II America. By Abigail Cheever. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010. x, 312 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3283-3.Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3429-5.) Kirk Curnutt Kirk Curnutt Troy University, Montgomery Montgomery, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Key West Hemingway
Key West Hemingway
"Most scholars contend that this stage [works written at Key West from 1928-1940] in Hemingway's writing marks his 'experimental' phase and are dismissive of these works. In Key West Hemingway, the argument is finally made for the importance of this body of literature. Comprising essays focusing on often-overlooked short stories and essays, this collection argues that the island helped bring about some of Hemingway's most overtly political and et…
Spirits of Defiance
With the possible exception of the 1960s youth movement, few historical events are as difficult to discuss without the undue influence of their popular culture representations as Prohibition. From Eliot Ness and The Untouchables (1987) to Al Capone and Howard Hawks's original Scarface (1932), modern perceptions of the “dry decade” (1920–1933) are indelibly tainted by images of bootleggers, speakeasies, and Valentine's Day massacres. Surprisingly,…
A Sense of Things
Critical Inquiry coeditor Bill Brown subverts William Carlos Williams's modernist dictum, “‘No ideas but in things,’” to ask “why and how we use objects to make meaning, to make or re-make ourselves, to organize our anxieties and affections, to sublimate our fears and shape our fantasies” (p. 4). If Williams's decree aimed to grant “things” a metaphysical integrity impervious to the taint of what Karl Marx called the grotesque ideas of commodity …
American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment
The Novels of William Styron
Wise Economies
This study proposes a new way of measuring brevity in the American short story. Since Edgar Allan Poe's definition of the tale, literary criticism has looked to various structural features within the text to define the elements that distinguish the short story from other prose genres like the novel. I argue that brevity is an essential feature of storytelling and suggest that its perception is molded and shaped by several historical factors. The …
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Wise Economies
This study proposes a new way of measuring brevity in the American short story. Since Edgar Allan Poe's definition of the tale, literary criticism has looked to various structural features within the text to define the elements that distinguish the short story from other prose genres like the novel. I argue that brevity is an essential feature of storytelling and suggest that its perception is molded and shaped by several historical factors. The …
The Novels of William Styron
American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment
A Sense of Things
Critical Inquiry coeditor Bill Brown subverts William Carlos Williams's modernist dictum, “‘No ideas but in things,’” to ask “why and how we use objects to make meaning, to make or re-make ourselves, to organize our anxieties and affections, to sublimate our fears and shape our fantasies” (p. 4). If Williams's decree aimed to grant “things” a metaphysical integrity impervious to the taint of what Karl Marx called the grotesque ideas of commodity …
Spirits of Defiance
With the possible exception of the 1960s youth movement, few historical events are as difficult to discuss without the undue influence of their popular culture representations as Prohibition. From Eliot Ness and The Untouchables (1987) to Al Capone and Howard Hawks's original Scarface (1932), modern perceptions of the “dry decade” (1920–1933) are indelibly tainted by images of bootleggers, speakeasies, and Valentine's Day massacres. Surprisingly,…
Key West Hemingway
Key West Hemingway
"Most scholars contend that this stage [works written at Key West from 1928-1940] in Hemingway's writing marks his 'experimental' phase and are dismissive of these works. In Key West Hemingway, the argument is finally made for the importance of this body of literature. Comprising essays focusing on often-overlooked short stories and essays, this collection argues that the island helped bring about some of Hemingway's most overtly political and et…
Real Phonies
Journal Article Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post–World War II America Get access Real Phonies: Cultures of Authenticity in Post–World War II America. By Abigail Cheever. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010. x, 312 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3283-3.Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-3429-5.) Kirk Curnutt Kirk Curnutt Troy University, Montgomery Montgomery, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Perfectly Average
As Anna G. Creadick demonstrates in this brisk, persuasive study, the idea of the “perfectly average” life represented a post–World War II reaction to the dual upheavals of the depression and the war. It reflected a desire for middle-class stability, one made affordable by the relative prosperity of the late 1940s and early 1950s and codified by popular life-style discourse. It became an institutional gauge for health and character, fashion and t…
American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980
American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980 examines the literary developments of the twentieth-century's gaudiest decade. For a quarter century, filmmakers, musicians, and historians have returned to the era to explore the legacy of Watergate, stagflation, and Saturday Night Fever, uncovering the unique confluence of political and economic phenomena that make the period such a baffling time. Literary historians have never shown much interest in…
American Literature in Transition, 1970-1980
The Sociable City
News from the metropolis is invariably bad: from Jacob Riis's tenement photojournalism to the slums in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) to the blight of the Valley of Ashes in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) and onward to the gang violence of Irving Shulman's The Amboy Dukes (1947), Walter Hill's 1979 film adaptation of Sol Yurick's The Warriors (1965) and, most recently, to the Hobbesian housing politics of David Simon's Hbo…
The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald
This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald offers both new and familiar readers an authoritative guide to the full scope of Fitzgerald's literary legacy. Gathering the critical insights of leading Fitzgerald specialists, it includes newly commissioned essays on The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald's judgment of his peers, and Fitzgerald's screenwriting and Hollywo…
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