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Farrell's Studs Lonigan
Farrell’s Studs Lonigan
Free Indirect Discourse
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Great Divide
Houston Baker
Ideological Fiction
James Smethurst
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John Dos Passos
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Large Family
Lawd Today
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Maria Lauret
Marxist literary criticism
Meridel Le Sueur
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Nathanael West
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Product details
- ISBN 9780415975384
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Aug 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First Published in 2005. The main purpose of the book is to expand the scope of revisionary studies of the thirties by analyzing novels using recent innovations in critical theory. The book adds to the research of Barbara Foley, Michael Denning, Alan Wald, and others who have challenged Cold-War-era accounts of the decade's socialist and communist culture. The book explores leftist literature from the thirties as balanced between two antithetical philosophical modalities: identity and ideology. Writers create identitarian fiction, he argues, as they attempt to appeal to a mainstream audience using familiar types and patterns culled from mass culture. They engage ideology, on the other hand, when they use narrative as a means of critiquing those same types and patterns using strategies of ideological critique similar to those of their European contemporary Georg Lukcs.
Andrew Yerkes is an adjunct professor of English at the University of St. Thomas. He has taught and researched the recurrence of historiographic patterns of apocalypse and millennium in American fiction, and he published on this topic in Routledge's Encyclopedia of Millennialismand Millennial Movements (2002).
