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Modernity and progress : Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Orwell / Ronald Berman

Author
Berman, Ronald
Published
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2005]
Copyright Date
©2005
Physical Description
1 online resource (123 pages) : illustrations
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Fitzgerald and the geography of progress -- Hemingway and "the new America" -- Fitzgerald : time, continuity, relativity -- Hemingway and the authority of thought -- Recurrence in Hemingway and Cézanne -- Orwell : the future of progress.
Summary
Breaks new critical ground by exploring philosophical and aesthetic issues germane to the writings of three major modern literary figures. In the 1920s and '30s, understandings of time, place, and civilization were subjected to a barrage of new conceptions. Ronald Berman probes the work of three writers who wrestled with one or more of these issues in ways of lasting significance. Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Orwell all grappled with fluid notions of time: Hemingway's absolute present, Fitzgerald'
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ISBN
0817380140 (electronic bk.)
9780817380144 (electronic bk.)
0817354301
9780817354305
0817314687 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780817380144
9780817314682 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-120) and index.
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