{"product_id":"toward-a-modernist-style-john-dos-passos-paperback","title":"Toward a Modernist Style: John Dos Passos - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald Pizer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new appraisal of Dos Passos's work and life, \u003ci\u003eToward a Modernist Style \u003c\/i\u003edescribes both the central currents in his early work, and his full participation in literary modernism, culminating in his \u003ci\u003eU.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, as well as the relationship of these currents to those of an especially vibrant period in American expression. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDonald Pizer charts the evolution of Dos Passos's artistic sensibility from its largely conventional expression at the start of the 1920s to the radical formal experimentation of \u003ci\u003eU.S.A.\u003c\/i\u003e at its close. He places this development in Dos Passos's writing in the context of contemporary ideas about art and society. Pizer also looks at the important roles that Dos Passos's expatriation and his relationship with Ernest Hemingway played in his work as well as his efforts as a painter and their relationship to his literary art. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eToward a Modernist Style\u003c\/i\u003e is both an incisive guide to a major American modernist as well as an exploration of the wider currents that created literary modernism in the early twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Pizer\u003c\/b\u003e is the Pierce Butler Professor of English Emeritus at Tulane University, USA. He is the editor of 11 books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Novels of Theodore Dreiser: A Critical Study\u003c\/i\u003e (1976), \u003ci\u003eDos Passos' U.S.A.: A Critical Study\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment: Modernism and Place \u003c\/i\u003e(1996) and the editor of 22 books, including \u003ci\u003eThree Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e by John Dos Passos, edited with an introduction, a Signet Classic (1997). His awards and honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Lectureship (University of Hamburg) and a National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47335494091001,"sku":"9781623561185","price":88.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/SFJPd2t5d2pFVk9VTG05Z1dMd3J5Zz09.webp?v=1769663167","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/toward-a-modernist-style-john-dos-passos-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}