Writing Chicago
Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11095201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Jo Deegan (corresponding author), Carla Cappetti |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 90 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2074896 |
| OpenAlex | W2081098933 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
Writing uncovers the deep connections between the renowned Chicago school of sociology - exemplified by William Thomas, Robert Park and Robert Redfield - and the great Chicago novelists of the 1930s, Nelson Algren, Richard Wright and James T. Farrell, all of whom integrated sociological theories into their own work. In their studies of society, the Chicago sociologists often imitated creative writers and literary critics. Somewhat later, Chicago novelists discovered in sociology important tools that enabled them to write about migrants and immigrants, the city and the slum. Cappetti provides readings of Farrell's Studs Lonigan, Algren's Never Come Morning and Wright's Black Boy and Hunger in light of their sociological influences. While belonging to separate disciplines and expressing themselves through different forms of writing, Chicago writers and sociologists nevertheless lived in close intellectual proximity. The product of their overall creativity was an impressive number of studies and narratives about the city, immigration and deviance that shaped the representation of urban America and the perception of American society between the world wars
Art history · Ethnography · Modernism (music · Sociology · American Literature and Culture · Anthropology · Canadian Identity and History · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History
Geographical Knowledges and Neoliberal Tensions
Communicable Americanism
"Bled In, Letter by Letter"
Playing in the Dark, on the Left, and Out of Bounds
Ethnographic Writing, the Avant-Garde and a Failure of Nerve 1
Social Avalanche
Just Like Home
Fiction in Goffman
On city streets
L'automobile comme objet de recherche, Chicago, 1915-1940
Body to Body
(Re-)Writing Thamel
Everybody's Going
Reconsidering the Urban in Urban Education
Prolínání literatury a etnografie ve Spojených státech amerických
The Corpus Status of Literature in Teaching Sociology
Qualitative Data Analysis
Narrative Turn or Blind Alley
The con man as model organism
The power of accounts
From Allegories of Identity to Sites of Dialogue
Black Belts and Ivory Towers
Mapping the City
Directions for Public Sociology
Emerging Institutions
Artful Dodgers
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,84 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2022 (28) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |