- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 285 pages)
- Uniform Title
- Word on the streets (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Word on the streets (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2017011908
- OCLC
- ssj0001907931
- Author
Hefner, Brooks E.
- Title
The word on the streets [electronic resource] : the American language of vernacular modernism / Brooks E. Hefner.
- Imprint
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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