Networks of modernism : reorganizing American narrative /
by Wesley Beal.
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Networks and the cultural logic of modernism -- In lieu of a manifesto: Randolph Bourne's "trans-national America" as an origin of network aesthetics -- Network form as network politics in Jean Toomer's Cane -- Public spaces and distributed settings in Anita Loos's Gentlemen prefer blondes -- Schisms: form and content, space and history in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy -- Nathanael West's crowds and the closure of modern network aesthetics.
9781609383527
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century Modernism (Literature)--United States.