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260 a| Charlottesville :b| University of Virginia Press,c| 2017.;

300 a| x, 285 pages ;c| 24 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.;

505 0 a| Introduction: slanguage: toward a theory of American vernacular modernism -- "The steady reaching out for new and vivid forms": H. L. Mencken and the American revolution of the word -- "Never mind the comical stuff . . . they ain't no joke about this!": Ring Lardner, Anita Loos, and the comic origins of vernacular modernism -- "I didn't understand the words, but my voice was like dynamite": Anzia Yezierska, Mike Gold, and the Jewish American break with realism -- "Say it with lead": Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, and modernism's underworld vernacular -- "The necromancy of language": realist uplift and the urban vernacular in Rudolph Fisher and Claude McKay -- Conclusion: "but mostly U.S.A. is the speech of the people": modernism's familial.;

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The word on the streets the American language of vernacular modernism / Brooks E. Hefner.

Author/creator	Hefner, Brooks E.
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2017.
Description	x, 285 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	American literature--20th century. --History and criticism. Modernism (Literature)--United States. Americanisms in literature.

Contents	Introduction: slanguage: toward a theory of American vernacular modernism -- "The steady reaching out for new and vivid forms": H. L. Mencken and the American revolution of the word -- "Never mind the comical stuff . . . they ain't no joke about this!": Ring Lardner, Anita Loos, and the comic origins of vernacular modernism -- "I didn't understand the words, but my voice was like dynamite": Anzia Yezierska, Mike Gold, and the Jewish American break with realism -- "Say it with lead": Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, and modernism's underworld vernacular -- "The necromancy of language": realist uplift and the urban vernacular in Rudolph Fisher and Claude McKay -- Conclusion: "but mostly U.S.A. is the speech of the people": modernism's familial.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-269) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2017011908
ISBN	9780813940403 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780813940410 (softcover : alk. paper)

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