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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Soto, Michael. "Literary History and the Age of Jazz: Generation, Renaissance, and American Literary Modernism," Department of English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University, August 1999.
This study investigates the degree to which movements determine the shape of literary modernism in the United States. First I examine the Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance from a sociology of aesthetic perspective. I argue that generational and renaissance rhetoric inform a transnational, polytechnic discourse concerned with literatures. Then I trace important aesthetic innovations suggested by the metaphors of generation and rebirth, including the rise of what I call the “bohemian artist narrative.” My primary concern is with the thematic expression of reading and writing practices; specifically, as these are realized in bohemian novels and memoirs. The rapid proliferation of the bohemian artist narrative in the U.S. reveals a growing concern not only with the inner world created by literature, but also with the outer world in which literature is created, including the social worlds imagined as the Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance. I demonstrate how writers as diverse as Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurstion, James Weldong Johnson, Claude McKay, Henry Miller, Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, and William Carlos Williams imaginatively conceive of American literary emergence in terms of symbolic birth (or rebirth) into a generation.
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