American and European Literary Imagination

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Focusing on American literature from 1919 to 1932, McCormick explores the interplay between American and European influences that shaped the era's writers. He examines notable figures like Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ernest Hemingway, highlighting their responses to modernity and traditionalism. The book also addresses formal innovations by writers such as John Dos Passos and E.E. Cummings, alongside the poetic revolutions led by T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Concluding chapters analyze the impact of psychoanalysis and philosophical thought on the literature of the time.