American Modern(ist) Epic: Novels to Refound a Nation

by Adam Nemmers

American Modern(ist) Epic argues that during the 1920s and '30s a cadre of minority novelists revitalized the classic epic form in an effort to recast the United States according to modern, diverse, and pluralistic grounds. Rather than adhere to the reification of static culture (as did ancient verse epic), in their prose epics Gertrude Stein and John Dos Passos utilized recursion, bricolage, and polyphony to represent the multifarious immediacy and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1949979660
• ISBN13: 9781949979664
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Clemson University Press W/ Lup
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.7"