The modernist nation [electronic resource] : generation, renaissance, and twentieth-century American literature / Michael Soto.
Publication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.Description: x, 228 pISBN:- 0817313923 (alk. paper)
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Conflict of generations in literature
- Nationalism in literature
- Artists in literature
- Beat generation
- 810.9/005 22
- PS228.M63 S68 2004eb

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-219) and index.
Generational rhetoric and American avant-gardism -- Renaissance rhetoric and American cultural nationalism -- American modernism is born : the rise of the Bohemian artist narrative -- The modernist generation : growing up in the American race.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.