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  1. Spoon River America
    Edgar Lee Masters and the myth of the American small town
    Author: Stacy, Jason
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana

    "A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the... more

     

    "A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes-populist, elite, and exile-that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped change a nation's conception of itself"--

     
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  2. Spoon river America
    Edgar Lee Masters and the myth of the American small town
    Author: Stacy, Jason
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  University of Illinois Press, Urbana

    Location:
    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Georg Forster-Gebäude / USA-Bibliothek
    Signature:
    811.52 STA
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780252085826; 9780252043833
    RVK Categories: HU 4469
    Subjects: Kultur; Literatur; Kleinstadt <Motiv>; Nationalbewusstsein <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Masters, Edgar Lee (1868-1950)
    Scope: 234 Seiten