American Fiction Between The Wars (Bloom's Period Studies)

Contents......Page 6
Editor’s Note......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
The “Tragic Pastoral”......Page 38
Sherwood Anderson: American Mythopoeist......Page 72
Sinclair Lewis and the Implied America......Page 86
The Fully Matured Art: The Grapes of Wrath......Page 100
Dos Passos’s U.S.A.: Chronicle and Performance......Page 128
Modernism: The Case of Willa Cather......Page 146
Metaphor, Metonymy, and Voice\rin Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God......Page 164
De Profundis: The Sound and the Fury I......Page 182
Fitzgerald and Cather: The Great Gatsby......Page 202
Clarity Returns: Ida and\rThe Geographical History of America......Page 216
The Expatriate Predicament in The Sun Also Rises......Page 238
Writing the Long Desire:\rThe Function of Sehnsucht in\rThe Great Gatsby and Look Homeward, Angel......Page 252
Order and Will in A Farewell to Arms......Page 266
Lost Gods: Pan, Milton, and\rthe Pastoral Tradition in Thomas Wolfe’s O Lost......Page 282
Youth Culture and the Spectacle of Waste:\rThis Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned......Page 296
A Yoknapatawpha Pantheon: Light in August......Page 318
Chronology......Page 346
Contributors......Page 376
Bibliography......Page 380
Acknowledgments......Page 392