American Dream Gone Astray : Critical Realism in American Fiction, 1920-1940
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
European University Studies
ISBN-10
390675393X
ISBN-13
9783906753935
Publisher
Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint
Verlag Peter Lang
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 1st, 1995
Print length
196 Pages
Weight
286 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 22.50 x 1.10 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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This study focuses on nine American novelists and their criticism of the deceptive enticements of the American Dream. Written during the crucial years between the two World Wars, both, well-known authors such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Steinbeck as well as half forgotten Critical Realists, raise an admonitory finger, portraying the needs and illusions, the hopes and shattered dreams of their protagonists. Minute textual analyses reveal the authors'' concern with a society which seduces its members with the promises of the American Dream.
Striking similarities betwen their criticism and recent European disapprobation of American influence on Europe can be discerned. In order to get a better understanding of the perception of the American Dream, the author illuminates some fundamental concepts concerning the American Way of Life and the country''s historical background.
Striking similarities betwen their criticism and recent European disapprobation of American influence on Europe can be discerned. In order to get a better understanding of the perception of the American Dream, the author illuminates some fundamental concepts concerning the American Way of Life and the country''s historical background.
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