The Word on the Streets
The American Language of Vernacular Modernism
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American
| Author: | Brooks E. Hefner | ISBN: | 9780813940427 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press | Publication: | October 27, 2017 |
| Imprint: | University of Virginia Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Brooks E. Hefner |
| ISBN: | 9780813940427 |
| Publisher: | University of Virginia Press |
| Publication: | October 27, 2017 |
| Imprint: | University of Virginia Press |
| Language: | English |
Upending conventional literary theory, Hefner argues American Modernism did not begin with the political left in the 1930s, but that writers were already experimenting with American language using cross-racial, cross ethnic, and cross-class vernacular in the popular writing of the 1920s.
Upending conventional literary theory, Hefner argues American Modernism did not begin with the political left in the 1930s, but that writers were already experimenting with American language using cross-racial, cross ethnic, and cross-class vernacular in the popular writing of the 1920s.
