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Writing the Lost Generation: Expatriate Autobiography and American Modernism
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Craig Monk
Members of the Lost Generation, American writers and artists who lived in Paris during the 1920s, continue to occupy an important place in our literary history. Rebelling against increased commercialism and the ebb of cosmopolitan society in early twentieth-century America, they rejected the culture of what Ernest Hemingway called a place of “broad lawns and narrow minds.”
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Hardcover
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230 pages
Published
September 1st 2008
by University Of Iowa Press
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Craig Monk has opened a new way of looking at the "Lost Generation" in Paris of the 1920's. Anyone who has an interest in this subject should not miss his insightful journeys into the breadth of autobiography's importance to understanding the time. While covering the "usual suspects" (Stein, Hemingway, Beach,etc.), Monk introduces us to lesser known characters whose experiences give a different slant from those more familiar. The view of what comprised an expatriate is fascinating reading as pre
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An excellent read. I read many of the Lost Generation authors when I was a young adult living and going to school in the US. Henry Miller is and remains my favorite.
Today I am re-reading them as an American emigrant/expatriate living in France for nearly 20 years. Much to think about in Monk's analysis. I took a stab at it in this essay/review: http://thefranco-americanflophouse.bl...
Today I am re-reading them as an American emigrant/expatriate living in France for nearly 20 years. Much to think about in Monk's analysis. I took a stab at it in this essay/review: http://thefranco-americanflophouse.bl...
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Craig Monk is associate dean in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and an associate professor of English at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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