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John Dos Passos's Transatlantic Chronicling - Critical Essays on the Interwar Years (Hardcover)
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John Dos Passos's Transatlantic Chronicling - Critical Essays on the Interwar Years (Hardcover)
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"I never could keep the world properly divided into gods and demons
for very long," wrote John Dos Passos, whose predilection toward
nuance and tolerance brought him to see himself as a "chronicler":
a writer who might portray political situations and characters but
would not deliberately lead the reader to a predetermined
conclusion. Privileging the tangible over the ideological, Dos
Passos's writing between the two World Wars reveals the enormous
human costs of modern warfare and ensuing political upheavals. This
wide-ranging and engaging collection of essays explores the work of
Dos Passos during a time that challenged writers to find new ways
to understand and render the unfolding of history. Taking their
foci from a variety of disciplines, including fashion, theater, and
travel writing, the contributors extend the scholarship on Dos
Passos beyond his best-known U.S.A. trilogy. Including scholars
from both sides of the Atlantic, the volume takes on such topics as
how writers should position their labor in relation to that of
blue-collar workers and how Dos Passos's views of Europe changed
from fascination to disillusionment. Examinations of the
Modernist's Adventures of a Young Man, Manhattan Transfer, and "The
Republic of Honest Men" increase our understanding of the work of a
complicated figure in American literature, set against a backdrop
of rapidly evolving technology, growing religious skepticism, and
political turmoil in the wake of World War I.
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