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Q. How is disallusionment displayed through modern American literature. Best answerer will be rewarded ten points.Books read in class: Great Gatsby and The Crucible Thanks.
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In Gatsby - Gatsby can buy anything but not the girl he desperately wants and Nick is disillusioned because people are easily bought with money.
In the Crucible - no justice from a society cought in the grip of a hateful mania.
In Gatsby - Gatsby can buy anything but not the girl he desperately wants and Nick is disillusioned because people are easily bought with money.
In the Crucible - no justice from a society cought in the grip of a hateful mania.
IS John Irving recognized as the first figure novelist in the modern American literature?
Tamori
I am a fan of John Irving.
I read "HOTEL NEWHAMPSHER" "THW WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP"
Is he the first figure in the modern American literature?
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Those are great books and I'm an Irving fan as well.
But he's not "....the first figure in the modern American literature."
John Irving didn't begin to publish until his first novel, 'Setting Free the Bears' (it's very good, too) in '68. That puts him in 'American Post-modernism' and beyond it, since his work extends over a much longer time.
'Pre-modern' American literature writers would be... (after 'American Colonial' writers and not 'American Depression' era writers [such as Steinbeck, Nathaneal West and Henry Miller]). ..writers like Henry Melville, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Emerson, Poe, Washington Irving, J. Fenimore Cooper, etc.
'Turn of the century' writers, meaning from the 19th to 20th centuries, (modern) include writers such as Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Edward Bellamy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Hemingway, Faulkner, Upton Sinclair and more.
'Post World War ll' includes Harper Lee, J.D. Salinger, Saul Bellow, Kerouac, etc.
They wrote mainly in the '50s, very early '60s.
Looking at the mid to late '60s....
Then you have John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, etc.
Have you read 'Setting Free the Bears' and 'A Prayer for Owen Meany' by John Irving?
Those are also very fine books. (By the way, there are typos in your question. See?)
Many books by Mr. Irving are excellent.
He has never had a Pulitzer, though some of his books are films now.
Those are great books and I'm an Irving fan as well.
But he's not "....the first figure in the modern American literature."
John Irving didn't begin to publish until his first novel, 'Setting Free the Bears' (it's very good, too) in '68. That puts him in 'American Post-modernism' and beyond it, since his work extends over a much longer time.
'Pre-modern' American literature writers would be... (after 'American Colonial' writers and not 'American Depression' era writers [such as Steinbeck, Nathaneal West and Henry Miller]). ..writers like Henry Melville, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Emerson, Poe, Washington Irving, J. Fenimore Cooper, etc.
'Turn of the century' writers, meaning from the 19th to 20th centuries, (modern) include writers such as Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Edward Bellamy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Hemingway, Faulkner, Upton Sinclair and more.
'Post World War ll' includes Harper Lee, J.D. Salinger, Saul Bellow, Kerouac, etc.
They wrote mainly in the '50s, very early '60s.
Looking at the mid to late '60s....
Then you have John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, etc.
Have you read 'Setting Free the Bears' and 'A Prayer for Owen Meany' by John Irving?
Those are also very fine books. (By the way, there are typos in your question. See?)
Many books by Mr. Irving are excellent.
He has never had a Pulitzer, though some of his books are films now.
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