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The word on the streets : the American language of vernacular modernism
- Title
- The word on the streets : the American language of vernacular modernism / Brooks E. Hefner.
- Author
- Hefner, Brooks E.
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- x, 285 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: slanguage: toward a theory of American vernacular modernism -- "The steady reaching out for new and vivid forms": H. L. Mencken and the American revolution of the word -- "Never mind the comical stuff . . . they ain't no joke about this!": Ring Lardner, Anita Loos, and the comic origins of vernacular modernism -- "I didn't understand the words, but my voice was like dynamite": Anzia Yezierska, Mike Gold, and the Jewish American break with realism -- "Say it with lead": Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, and modernism's underworld vernacular -- "The necromancy of language": realist uplift and the urban vernacular in Rudolph Fisher and Claude McKay -- Conclusion: "but mostly U.S.A. is the speech of the people": modernism's familial.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-11014
- ISBN
- 9780813940403
- 0813940400
- 9780813940410
- 0813940419
- LCCN
- 2017011908
- OCLC
- 988167398
- Author
- Hefner, Brooks E., author.
- Title
- The word on the streets : the American language of vernacular modernism / Brooks E. Hefner.
- Publisher
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-11014