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Writing the City
Writing the City examines and challenges the traditional transatlantic axis of urban modernism, London-Paris-New York, an axis that has often elided the historical importance of other centers that have shaped metropolitan identities and discourses. According to Desmond Harding, James Joyce's internationalist vision of Dublin generates powerful epistemic and cultural tropes that reconceive the idea of the modern city as a moral phenomenon in transcultural and transhistorical terms. Taking up the works of both Joyce and John Dos Passos, Harding investigates the lasting contributions these author's made to transatlantic intellectual thought in their efforts to envisage the city.
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John Dos Passos
This set comprises 40 volumes covering 19th and 20th century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set complements the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.
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Staging modern American life : popular culture in the experimental theatre of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos
\"The theatrical works of Millay, Cummings, and Dos Passos, which have largely been marginalized in discussions of theater history and literary scholarship, offer a hybrid theater that integrates the popular with the formal, the mainstream with the experimental. Fahy examines the integration of and challenges to popular culture found in their works and offers new readings with an eye to American cultural studies and the impact of mass entertainment on modern life\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Protest and The Body in Melville, Dos Passos, and Hurston
This book analyzes the work of Herman Melville, John Dos Passos, and Zora Neale Hurston alongside biographical materials and discourses on the body. Thomas McGlamery views each of these authors' literary output as an effort to \"work through\" the political meanings associated with the body, examining how they negotiate identities of class, gender, race, sexuality, and age.
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A New Historicist Reading of John Dos Passos’ Novel The Big Money: Depiction of Children as a “Second Lost Generation”
This article examines the representation of children as a “second lost generation” in John Dos Passos’ novel The Big Money. It explains that the documentary and narrative sections that Dos Passos integrates into the novel explore how children’s position in the 1930s is caught between parents’ care and indifference. Dos Passos clarifies the impact of the American Dream and materialism upon the structuring of this conflicted position. In the novel’s Newsreels, Dos Passos presents a composite of popular songs and news headlines that present children seeking jobs and also departing from their family houses. Alongside the presentation of this phenomenon which resonates with children’s social situation in 1930s, in the narrative sections Dos Passos portrays Juvenile characters as living in families whose main concern is the making of money. To investigate this representation, the article considers the views of historians about the first “lost generation” (the post-World War I generation). It utilizes the “second lost generation” term to describe the juveniles who struggled during the 1930s age of Depression. The article historicizes the position of children in 1930s America. It refers to literary critics’ views about Dos Passos’ modernist and political inclination. The article concludes that Dos Passos’ The Big Money manifests in a modernist form fragmented historical realities about 1930s America’s materialistic thinking, within which children are seen as a second “lost generation”.
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From Vorticist Dreams to Futurist Nightmares: John Dos Passos’s Novels of the 1920s
While long having noted John Dos Passos’s early fiction’s debt to Italian Futurism, critics have paid scant attention to the author’s interest in English Vorticism. In his best-known novels of the 1920s—One Man’s Initiation, Three Soldiers, and Manhattan Transfer—Dos Passos pits the two avant-garde movements against each other. Drawing on theories of violence by Hal Foster and other critics, I argue that Vorticism’s insistence on controlled movement frequently and unwittingly gives way to Futurist chaos and dispersal—just as the characters in these three novels, often in the very attempt to maintain equilibrium at high speeds, spin self-destructively out of control. Those who do survive the speed and violence of modern life risk a different form of death, one in which their souls are gutted and replaced with a mechanization that makes them a physical and spiritual threat to others who come within their orbit.
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Writing in a Vital Materialist World: Architecture, Nature, and Language Forming Assemblages and Creating Anxieties in John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer
In this thesis, I propose to examine John Dos Passos’s Manhattan Transfer from a critical perspective supplied by Jane Bennett’s theory of vibrant matter as proposed in her book Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Reading this novel from this point of view reveals the writer’s understanding of how people and things constitute an assemblage, leading to the understanding that architectural constructs play a crucial role in identity formation. Through analyzing the nonliving actants in these assemblages, a deeper anxiety within the characters is revealed. Dos Passos’s characters develop anxieties associated with the horizontalization of things, causing them to grapple with their own importance through various outlets, including committing violence toward architectural structures, brutal expressions of sexual aggression, and ending lives to cope with this loss of control.
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