ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1956
Jezik: Engleski
Vrsta: Istorija svetske književnosti
Autor: Strani

On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature (Abridged) Mass Market Paperback – January 1, 1956

Publisher: ‎ Doubleday (January 1, 1956)

Kazin rounds up the usual suspects in this 1942 survey of American literature. Though many of the authors discussed went on to greater glory and hence more in-depth studies after its publication (Steinbeck, Hemingway, etc.), the book still has its value for students of fiction.

Alfred Kazin’s interpretation of the development of modern American prose literature since the end of the nineteenth century has the advantage of a double perspective—for its author is both literary critic and historian. ON NATIVE GROUNDS discusses the major writers of the period — William Dean Howells, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and William Faulkner – and relates them to the times that shaped their thought and, in turn, whose thought they helped to express. In his comprehensive view of American prose literature during this century, Mr. Kazin includes not only our novelists, but such writers as Vernon Parrington and Thorstein Veblen, and traces the growth of modern realism from Howells to its culmination in the documentary literature of the thirties. For this edition Mr. Kazin has provided a new Postscript, which brings his study to the present.

“Conceived on a grand scale and as not only a literary but a moral history, it is quite the best and most complete treatment we have of an arduous and difficult subject.” – LIONEL TRILLING

About the Author
Alfred Kazin has lectured and taught at many prestigious universities in both the U.S. and Europe. His books include A Walker in the City, The Inmost Leaf, and Starting Out in the Thirties.

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