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No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher.  \nPrinted and bound in the United States of America.  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for.  \nAmerican fiction between the wars / [compiled by] Harold Bloom.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Bloom’s period studies) Includes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 0-7910-8236-9 (alk. paper)  \n1. American fiction—20th century—History and criticism. 2. World War, 2914- 1918—United States—Literature and the war. I. Bloom, Harold. II. Series.  \nPS374 .W65A84 2004 813’.5209—dc22  \n2004027465  \nContributing editor: Janyce Marson Cover design by Keith Trego Layout by EJB Publishing Services  \nAll links and web addresses were checked and verified to be correct at the time of publication. Because of the dynamic nature of the web, some addresses and links may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid.  \nEvery effort has been made to trace the owners of copyrighted material and secure copyright permission. Articles appearing in this volume generally appear much as they did in their original publication with little to no editorial changes. Those interested in locating the original source will find bibliographic information on the first page of each article as well as in the bibliography and acknowledgments sections of this volume.  \nContents  \nEditor’s Note vii  \nIntroduction 1  \nHarold Bloom  \nThe “Tragic Pastoral” 29  \nSergio Perosa  \nSherwood Anderson: American Mythopoeist 63  \nBenjamin T. Spencer  \nSinclair Lewis and the Implied America 77  \nJames Lea  \nThe Fully Matured Art: The Grapes of Wrath 91  \nHoward Levant  \nDos Passos’s U.S.A.: Chronicle and Performance 119  \nCharles Marz  \nModernism: The Case of Willa Cather 137  \nPhyllis Rose  \nMetaphor, Metonymy, and Voice  \nin Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God 155  \nBarbara Johnson  \nDe Profundis: The Sound and the Fury I  \nMax Putzel 173  \nvi Contents  \nFitzgerald and Cather: The Great Gatsby 193  \nTom Quirk  \nClarity Returns: Ida and  \nThe Geographical History of America 207  \nRanda Dubnick  \nThe Expatriate Predicament in The Sun Also Rises 229  \nRobertA. Martin  \nWriting the Long Desire: The Function of Sehnsucht in  \nThe Great Gatsby and Look Homeward, Angel 243  \nD. G. 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