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BL
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989289
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b743659
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| Main Entry
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Monk, Craig,1969-
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| Title & Author
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Writing the lost generation : : expatriate autobiography and American modernism /\ by Craig Monk.
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| Publication Statement
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Iowa City :: University of Iowa Press,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (xiv, 213 pages)
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| ISBN
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1587297434
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: 9781587297434
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1587296896
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9781587296895
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-207) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: The lost generation and the critical function of autobiography -- Beyond the sermonic tradition -- Self-aggrandizement and expatriate reputation -- Searching for a representative expatriate -- Place as a strategy of attachment -- Patterns of women's stories.
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| Abstract
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In Writing the Lost Generation, Craig Monk unlocks a series of neglected texts while reinvigorating our reading of more familiar ones. Well-known autobiographies by Malcolm Cowley, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein are joined here by works from a variety of lesser-known, but still important, expatriate American writers, including Sylvia Beach, Alfred Kreymborg, Samuel Putnam, and Harold Stearns. By bringing together the self-reflective works of the Lost Generation and probing the ways the writers portrayed themselves, Monk provides an exciting and comprehensive overview of modernist expatri.
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Authors, American-- Biography-- History and criticism.
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Authors, American-- France-- Paris-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Autobiography-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Expatriate authors-- France-- Paris-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Authors, American-- Biography.
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Authors, American.
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Autobiography.
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Expatriate authors.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Composition Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Rhetoric.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Modernism (Literature)
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REFERENCE-- Writing Skills.
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France, Paris.
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| Dewey Classification
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808.89920694
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| LC Classification
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PS366.A88M66 2008eb
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