The Modern Temper
Author | : Joseph Wood Krutch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joseph Wood Krutch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph Wood Krutch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Civilization |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Lynn Dumenil |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0809069784 |
When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock market ushered in the great depression. But the 1920s were much more. Lynn Dumenil brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade. As her lively work makes clear, changing values brought an end to the repressive Victorian era; urban liberalism emerged; the federal bureaucracy was expanded; pluralism became increasingly important to America's heterogeneous society; and different religious, ethnic, and cultural groups encountered the homogenizing force of a powerful mass-consumer culture. "The Modern Temper "brings these many developments into sharp focus.
Author | : Lynn Dumenil |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 1995-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1429924004 |
Lynn Dumenil's The Modern Temper provides a unique perspective into the American Jazz Age. When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock market ushered in the great depression. But the 1920s were much more. Lynn Dumenil brings a fresh interpretation to a dramatic, important, and misunderstood decade. As her lively work makes clear, changing values brought an end to the repressive Victorian era; urban liberalism emerged; the federal bureaucracy was expanded; pluralism became increasingly important to America's heterogeneous society; and different religious, ethnic, and cultural groups encountered the homogenizing force of a powerful mass-consumer culture. The Modern Temper brings these many developments into sharp focus.
Author | : Anthony Harrigan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 1953* |
Genre | : Intellect |
ISBN | : |
Author | : American Studies Conference |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Kenneth Wolfskill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Edward Alexander |
Publisher | : Ohio State University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 0814201881 |
Author | : American Studies Conference (1963, Königswinter) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John B. Vickery |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2006-05-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0807131423 |
Lamentation of death is the traditional elegiac focus, but in the twentieth century the elegy has become characterized as well by the mourning of other kinds of loss—those personal, familial, romantic, cultural, and philosophical privations and dispossessions that have so greatly shaped the modern sensibility. According to John B. Vickery, a profound elegiac temper is itself the major trait of twentieth-century culture, registered in attitudes ranging from regret, sorrow, confusion, anger, anxiety, doubt, and alienation to outright despair. He transforms our understanding of the elegy and its relation to modernism in The Modern Elegiac Temper. Vickery offers in-depth readings of a broad sampling of British and American poems written from World War I to the present. He considers works of overlooked poets such as Vernon Watkins, George Barker, and Edith Sitwell while also attending to canonical writers such as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, and Wallace Stevens. Taking a text-oriented rather than author- or theory-oriented approach, he discusses in turn the personal, love, cultural, and philosophical elegy and shows how war, the Great Depression, the Holocaust, and other major historical events influenced poets’ elegiac expressions. By suggesting ways in which the individual-centered concerns of the traditional elegy metamorphose under the depersonalizing lens of high modernism, Vickery reveals the modern elegy to be a finely calibrated instrument for reading and expressing, absorbing and reflecting, the modern temperament.