TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hefner,Brooks E.
TI  - The Word on the Streets: The American Language of Vernacular Modernism
SN  - 9780813940427
AV  - PS221 .H446 2017 
U1  - 810.9112 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - American literature-20th century-History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 / "The Steady Reaching Out for New and Vivid Forms" H. L. Mencken and the American Revolution of the Word -- 2 / "Never Mind the Comical Stuff . . . . They Ain't No Joke about This!" Ring Lardner, Anita Loos, and the Comic Origins of Vernacular Modernism -- 3 / "I Didn't Understand the Words, but My Voice Was Like Dynamite" Anzia Yezierska, Mike Gold, and the Jewish American Break with Realism -- 4 / "Say It with Lead" Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett, and Modernism's Underworld Vernacular -- 5 / "The Necromancy of Language" Realist Uplift and the Urban Vernacular in Rudolph Fisher and Claude McKay -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Brooks Hefner shows how writers across a variety of popular genres--from Gertrude Stein and William Faulkner to humorist Anita Loos and ethnic memoirist Anzia Yezierska--employed street slang to mount their own critique of genteel realism and its classist emphasis on dialect hierarchies, the result of which was a form of American experimental writing that resonated powerfully across the American cultural landscape of the 1910s and 1920s
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