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Textual authority and modern American autobiography: Robert McAlmon, Kay Boyle, and the writing of a lost generation

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This article describes how Kay Boyle's revision of Robert McAlmon's autobiography, 'Being Geniuses Together,' reflects a better sense of narrative and community. Topics include homosexuality, memory, imagination, and modernism.

Author: Monk, Craig
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2001
Biography, Community, Autobiographies, Authors, American, American writers, Being Geniuses Together (Book), McAlmon, Robert, Boyle, Kay

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Marianne Moore, Kenneth Burke, and the poetics of literary labour

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This article discusses the manner in which social change is portrayed in the works of Kenneth Burke and Marianne Moore. Topics include modernism, cultural politics, gender, and alienation.

Author: Bazin, Victoria
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2001
Culture, Poetry, Women poets, Alienation, Alienation (Social psychology), Moore, Marianne

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Kenneth Burke: pioneer of ecocriticism

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This article discusses Kenneth Burke's ecological perspectives on literature and culture. Topics include transcendence, anthropocentrism, marxism, and nature.

Author: Coupe, Laurence
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Name: Journal of American Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-8758
Year: 2001
Analysis, History, Human beings, Human-environment interactions, Ecology, Human ecology, Ecology and history, Environmental sociology, Burke, Kenneth

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Subjects list: United States, Portrayals, Criticism and interpretation, Critical Essay, Characters and characteristics in literature, Literary characters
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