Bogardus, Ralph . 1938-; Hobson, Fred . 1943-; Alabama Symposium on English and American . Chiefly essays presented at the Fifth Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature, Tuscaloosa, Al. Oct. 19-21, 1978

Bogardus, Ralph . 1943-; Alabama Symposium on English and American Literature (5th : 1978 : Tuscaloosa, Al. Publication date. 19-21, 1978. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Literature at the Barricades book. They leave us with an impression that there was variety in American writing of the 1930s and a convincing argument that the decade was not a retreat from the modernism of the 1920s. Rather it was a transitional period in which literary modernism was very much an issue and a force that bore imaginative fruit.

Fourteen essayists deal with the experience of being a writer in a time of overwhelming economic depression and political ferment, and . The essays, as a group, constitute a reevaluation of the American literature of the 1930s.

Fourteen essayists deal with the experience of being a writer in a time of overwhelming economic depression and political ferment, and thereby illuminate the social, political, intellectual, and aesthetic problems and pressures that characterized the experience of American writers and influenced their works.

On July 20, we had the largest server crash in the last 2 years. The essays, as a group, constitute a reevaluation of the American literature of the 1930s

On July 20, we had the largest server crash in the last 2 years. At the same time they support and reinforce certain assumptions about the decade of the Great Depression-that it was grim, desperate, a time when dreams died and poverty became something other than genteel-they challenge other assumptions, chief among them in the notion that 1930s literature was uniform in content, drab in style, anti-formalist, and always political or sociological in. nature.

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Literature at the Barricades: The American Writer in the 1930s Ralph F. Bogardus and Fred Hobson . American Fiction from the 1930s. Try some of the novels your family members might have been reading in the 1930s. Not all of these novels have American settings

Power of Political Art: The 1930s Literary Left Reconsidered Robert Shulman 81. 358 S562 2000. Not all of these novels have American settings. Buck, Pearl The Good Earth (1931). Cain, James M. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934).

Fourteen essayists deal with the experience of being a writer in a time of overwhelming economic depression and political ferment, and thereby illuminate the social, political, intellectual, and aest. Bogardus, Ralph F. Other Authors: Hobson, Fred . Jr. Format: eBook. Full description Bogardus, Ralph F.

Bogardus, Ralph . and Fred Hobson, eds. Literature at the Barricades: The American Writer in the 1930s. Pells, Richard H. Radical Visions and American Dreams: Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1973

Bogardus, Ralph . University: University of Alabama Press, 1982. Gregory, James N. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and the Okie Culture in California. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. American Writers and Radical Politics, 1900-1939: Equivocal Commitments. New York: St. Martin's, 1987. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1973. Stein, Walter J. California and the Dust Bowl Migration.

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Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1982

Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1982. Hobbs examines Mountain Path and Between the Flowers in the light of the interest in the southern rural poor in the 1930’s and the stereotypes about them that influenced the content and reception of her work. Miller, Danny L. Wingless Flights: Appalachian Women in Fiction. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1996.