In the first 40 years of the 20th century, the American novel attained a maturity and force recognized by the world, symbolized by four Nobel prize-winners: Lewis, Buck, Hemingway, and Faulkner. It began with Dreiser's Sister Carrie, in 1900. Modern literature reflects America's growth in the number of cities as well as the progressive alienation from society, effects of war, growth of materialism, isolation of small towns, and the booms and depressions of the United States.
Designed to show the progression of certain themes and styles in the American novel of the first half of the 20th Century, the following titles have been selected as essays for this book: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser; Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton; Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe; MISS Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West; Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald; and The Big Money by John Dos Passos.
Literary criticism on Ernest Hemingway's 1926 The Sun Also Rises frames the portrayal a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San FermÃn in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. So much can be learned from this essay, explaining how America exchanged values with Europe and began bi-racial, sexually ambiguous speakeasy escapades.
Designed to show the progression of certain themes and styles in the American novel of the first half of the 20th Century, the following titles have been selected as essays for this book: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner; Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser; Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton; Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe; MISS Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West; Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald; and The Big Money by John Dos Passos.
Literary criticism on Ernest Hemingway's 1926 The Sun Also Rises frames the portrayal a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San FermÃn in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. So much can be learned from this essay, explaining how America exchanged values with Europe and began bi-racial, sexually ambiguous speakeasy escapades.
