The Word on the Streets

The American Language of Vernacular Modernism

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American
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Author: Brooks E. Hefner ISBN: 9780813940427
Publisher: University of Virginia Press Publication: October 27, 2017
Imprint: University of Virginia Press Language: English
Author: Brooks E. Hefner
ISBN: 9780813940427
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Publication: October 27, 2017
Imprint: University of Virginia Press
Language: English

Upending conventional literary theory, Hefner argues American Modernism did not begin with the political left in the 1930s, but that writers were already experimenting with American language using cross-racial, cross ethnic, and cross-class vernacular in the popular writing of the 1920s.

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Upending conventional literary theory, Hefner argues American Modernism did not begin with the political left in the 1930s, but that writers were already experimenting with American language using cross-racial, cross ethnic, and cross-class vernacular in the popular writing of the 1920s.

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