Author : Donald Pizer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1623564891
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)
Book Synopsis Toward a Modernist Style: John Dos Passos by : Donald Pizer
Download or read book Toward a Modernist Style: John Dos Passos written by Donald Pizer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new appraisal of Dos Passos's work and life, Toward a Modernist Style describes both the central currents in his early work, and his full participation in literary modernism, culminating in his U.S.A. trilogy, as well as the relationship of these currents to those of an especially vibrant period in American expression. Donald Pizer charts the evolution of Dos Passos's artistic sensibility from its largely conventional expression at the start of the 1920s to the radical formal experimentation of U.S.A. at its close. He places this development in Dos Passos's writing in the context of contemporary ideas about art and society. Pizer also looks at the important roles that Dos Passos's expatriation and his relationship with Ernest Hemingway played in his work as well as his efforts as a painter and their relationship to his literary art. Toward a Modernist Style is both an incisive guide to a major American modernist as well as an exploration of the wider currents that created literary modernism in the early twentieth century.