The Word on the Streets: The American Language of Vernacular Modernism

by Brooks E Hefner and Brooks E. Hefner

Book Overview

From the hard-boiled detective stories of Dashiell Hammett to the novels of Claude McKay, The Word on the Streets examines a group of writers whose experimentation with the vernacular argues for a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813940419
• ISBN13: 9780813940410
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.8"