Marco Millions and O'Neill'S Vision of America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895244 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick E Schmitt (corresponding author), Patrick Schmitt (0000-0001-7724-5979) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-40 |
| Publication date | 1989-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-020-01-03 |
| OpenAlex | W2085664550 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The 1920s saw a new generation of American writers come of age, a generation that found its voice most securely in the condemnation of America itself. Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Lewis-these and a host of other American literary artists severely criticised the shape of both American society and the American soul. Such criticism found its strongest media in this decade in the novel and the essay; poetry, represented by Pound and Eliot, criticized America primarily through its silence, the poets turning their back on the New World in their haste to retreat to the comforts, real or imagined, of the history and tradition of the Old
Aesthetics · American poetry · Art · Art history · Criticism · Literature · Poetry · Pound (networking · Silence · Soul · Theology · American and British Literature Analysis · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research · History · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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