American Modern(ist) Epic: Novels to Refound a Nation by Adam Nemmers (English)

Description: American Modern(ist) Epic by Adam Nemmers American Modern(ist) Epic argues that during the 1920s and 30s a cadre of minority novelists revitalized the classic epic form in an effort to recast the United States according to modern, diverse, and pluralistic grounds. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description American Modern(ist) Epic argues that during the 1920s and 30s a cadre of minority novelists revitalized the classic epic form in an effort to recast the United States according to modern, diverse, and pluralistic grounds. Rather than adhere to the reification of static culture (as did ancient verse epic), in their prose epics Gertrude Stein and John Dos Passos utilized recursion, bricolage, and polyphony to represent the multifarious immediacy and movement of the modern world. Meanwhile, H. T. Tsiang and Richard Wright created absurd and insipid anti-heroes for their epics, contesting the hegemony of Anglo and capitalist dominance in the United States. In all, I posit, these modern(ist) epic novels undermined and revised the foundational ideology of the United States, contesting notions of individualism, progress, and racial hegemony while modernizing the epic form in an effort to refound the nation. The marriage of this classical form to modernist principles produced transcendent literature and offered a strenuous challenge to the interwar status quo, yet ultimately proved a failure: longstanding American ideology was simply too fixed and widespread to be entirely dislodged. Author Biography Adam Nemmers is an Assistant Professor of English at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, where he teaches courses in American literature. His research focuses on modernism and multi-ethnic American literature, including recent essays and articles on Passing, Richard Wright, Faulkner, and radio drama. His forthcoming published work will include essays and articles on American protest literature, Southern matriarchy, and the Midwestern Ecogothic; an anthology of Transatlantic literature across the long nineteenth century; and a monograph on American modernism and the epic. He is currently at work on a book project about the public display of Black bodies in American literature. Table of Contents IntroductionGertrude Steins The Making of AmericansChapter 1: On Progress and AmericanSuccessChapter 2: The Unmaking of AmericanProgress John Dos Passoss U.S. A.Chapter 3: The American IndividualChapter 4: U.S. A. and the Totality ofModern LifeH.T. Tsiangs The Hanging on Union SquareChapter 5: Capitalism and Marxism inAmericaChapter 6: A Kind of Communist PilgrimsProgress Richard Wrights NativeSonChapter 7: American ApartheidChapter 8: A Quest Across the Color Line Coda Details ISBN1949979660 Author Adam Nemmers Short Title American Modern(ist) Epic Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1949979660 ISBN-13 9781949979664 Format Hardcover Subtitle Novels to Refound a Nation Publisher Clemson University Digital Press Imprint Clemson University Digital Press Place of Publication SC Country of Publication United States Pages 288 Publication Date 2021-10-12 AU Release Date 2021-10-12 NZ Release Date 2021-10-12 US Release Date 2021-10-12 UK Release Date 2021-10-12 Alternative 9781949979671 DEWEY 813.50935873 Audience Professional & Vocational Series Clemson University Press w/ LUP We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168356099;

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