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In "Different Dispatches", David Humphries brings together in a new way a diverse group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemmingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee and Robert Penn Warren. He demonstrates how these writers engage journalism in creating innovative texts that address mass culture as well as underlying cultural conditions. The book will be of interest to readers approaching these well-known authors for the first time or for scholars grappling with larger issues of cultural production and reception.
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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Edited by William E. Cain Professor of English Wellesley College A Routledge Series 94992-Humphries 1_24.indd 1 1/25/2006 4:42:08 PM Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory William E. Cain, General Editor Vital Contact Downclassing Journeys in American Literature from Herman Melville to Richard Wright Patrick Chura Cosmopolitan Fictions Ethics, Politics, and Global Change in the Works of Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Jamaica Kincaid, and J. M. Coetzee Katherine Stanton Negotiating Copyright Authorship and the Discourse of Literary Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century America Martin T. Buinicki “Foreign Bodies” Trauma, Corporeality, and Textuality in Contemporary American Culture Laura Di Prete Outsider Citizens The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin Sarah Relyea Overheard Voices Address and Subjectivity in Postmodern American Poetry Ann Keniston An Ethics of Becoming Configurations of Feminine Subjectivity in Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot Sonjeong Cho Museum Mediations Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry Barbara K. Fischer Narrative Desire and Historical Reparations A. S. Byatt, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie Tim S. Gauthier The Politics of Melancholy from Spenser to Milton Adam H. Kitzes Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern The (Hi)Story of a Difficult Relationship from Romanticism to Postmodernism Will Slocombe Depression Glass Documentary Photography and the Medium of the Camera Eye in Charles Reznikoff, George Oppen, and William Carlos Williams Monique Claire Vescia Fatal News Reading and Information Overload in Early Eighteenth-Century Literature Katherine E. Ellison 94992-Humphries 1_24.indd 2 Urban Revelations Images of Ruin in the American City, 1790–1860 Donald J. McNutt Postmodernism and Its Others The Fiction of Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo Jeffrey Ebbesen Different Dispatches Journalism in American Modernist Prose David T. Humphries 1/25/2006 4:42:08 PM Different Dispatches Journalism in American Modernist Prose David T. Humphries Routledge New York & London 94992-Humphries 1_24.indd 3 1/25/2006 4:42:08 PM RT76758_Discl.fm Page 1 Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:04 AM Published in 2006 by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 270 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Published in Great Britain by Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2 Park Square Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon OX14 4RN © 2006 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 International Standard Book Number-10: 0-415-97675-8 (Hardcover) International Standard Book Number-13: 978-0-415-97675-6 (Hardcover) No part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, or utilized in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from the publishers. Trademar