| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: The lost generation and the critical function of autobiography -- Beyond the sermonic tradition -- Self-aggrandizement and expatriate reputation -- Searching for a representative expatriate -- Place as a strategy of attachment -- Patterns of women's stories |
| Summary |
In Writing the Lost Generation, Craig Monk unlocks a series of neglected texts while reinvigorating our reading of more familiar ones. Well-known autobiographies by Malcolm Cowley, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein are joined here by works from a variety of lesser-known, but still important, expatriate American writers, including Sylvia Beach, Alfred Kreymborg, Samuel Putnam, and Harold Stearns. By bringing together the self-reflective works of the Lost Generation and probing the ways the writers portrayed themselves, Monk provides an exciting and comprehensive overview of modernist expatri |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-207) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Autobiography -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Authors, American -- France -- Paris -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Authors, American -- Biography -- History and criticism
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Expatriate authors -- France -- Paris -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Modernism (Literature)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Authors, American
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Authors, American -- Biography
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Autobiography
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Expatriate authors
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Modernism (Literature)
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France -- Paris
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781587297434 |
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1587297434 |
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