1st Edition
American Silences The Realism of James Agee, Walker Evans, and Edward Hopper
Edited By Joseph Ward
Copyright 2010
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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In "American Silences", Joseph Anthony Ward offers a unique analysis of the use and effects of silence in modern American realistic art. Beginning with the nineteenth-century literature that laid the foundation for silence in art, he moves to a brief analysis of Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg", Ohio and Ernest Hemingway's "In Our Time", showing how they, along with several other crucial works of... Read more
Introduction to the Transaction EditionPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: American Realism and the Aesthetic of SilenceOne: Four Fables of Silence: Poe, Melville, James, and AdamsTwo: Anderson and HemingwayThree: James AgeeFour: Walker EvansFive: Edward HopperEpilogueIndex
Biography
Joseph Anthony Ward was professor of English at Rice University and author of The Imagination of Disaster: Evil in the Fiction of Henry James and The Search for Form: Studies in the Structure of James's Fiction.
