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Realism and the birth of the modern United States : cinema, literature, and culture / Stanley Corkin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1996.Description: x, 240 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0820317306 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS374.R37 C67 1996
Contents:
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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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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