America in the 1920s and '30s saw the emergence of some of the best-known writers of the modern generation: John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner.
Contents:
The "tragic pastoral" / Sergio Perosa Sherwood Anderson : American mythopoeist / Benjamin T. Spencer Sinclair Lewis and the implied America / James Lea The fully matured art : The grapes of wrath / Howard Levant Dos Passos's U.S.A. : chronicle and performance / Charles Marz Modernism : the case of Willa Cather / Phyllis Rose Metaphor, metonymy, and voice in Zora Neale Hurston's Their eyes were watching God / Barbara Johnson De profundis : The sound and the fury I / Max Putzel Fitzgerald and Cather : The great Gatsby / Tom Quirk Clarity returns : Ida and The geographical history of America / Randa Dubnick The expatriate predicament in The sun also rises / Robert A. Martin Writing the long desire : the function of sehnsucht in The great Gatsby and Look homeward, angel / D. G. Kehl Order and will in A farewell to arms / Ronald Berman Lost gods : Pan, Milton, and the pastoral tradition in Thomas Wolfe's O lost / Lisa Kerr Youth culture and the spectacle of waste : This side of paradise and The beautiful and damned / Kirk Curnutt
A Yoknapatawpha pantheon : Light in August / Ryuichi Yamaguchi.