Yerkes Twentieth-Century Americanism

Identity and Ideology in Depression-Era Leftist Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-49131-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 178 Seiten

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yerkes, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents
Introduction
Revolutionary Symbolism:
American Depression-Era Leftist Literature
Chapter One
Identity and Ideology in Robert Cantwell's The Land of Plenty
Chapter Two
Disguised Theology of the Master-Wizard:

Critical and Scientific Marxism in Depression-Era Literary Criticism
Chapter Three
"I was not a character in a novel":
Fictionalizing the Self in Agnes Smedley's Daughter of Earth
Chapter Four
Standardized:

Stereotypes of the Depression in the Thirties Novels of West and Steinbeck
Chapter Five
The Artist's Dialectic:
Race Authenticity in the Thirties Novels of Richard Wright
Conclusion
The Power of Negative Thinking

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Yerkes is an adjunct professor of English at the University of St. Thomas. He has taught and researched the recurrence of historiographic patterns of apocalypse and millennium in American fiction, and he published on this topic in Routledge's Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements (2002).