Realism and the birth of the modern United States : cinema, literature, and culture / Stanley Corkin.
Material type: TextPublication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1996.Description: x, 240 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0820317306 (alk. paper)
- PS374.R37 C67 1996
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Revision of the author's thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-234) and index.
Introduction -- William Dean Howells and the order of progress --Thomas Edison and the machine that sees -- Sister Carrie and the natural power of things -- Edwin S. Porter and the facts of intelligible narrative -- D.W. Griffith's The birth of a nation : positivist history as a compositional method -- Ernest Hemingway's In our time and the objectification of experience -- Epilogue : Realism in the late twentieth century.
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