On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines
(Part of the Modernist Latitudes Series)
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American novelists and poets who came of age in the early twentieth century were taught to avoid journalism "like wet sox and gin before breakfast." It dulled creativity, rewarded sensationalist content, and stole time from "serious" writing. Yet Willa Cather, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, James Agee, T. S. Eliot, and Ernest Hemingway all worked in the editorial offices of groundbreaking popular magazines and helped to invent the house styles that...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231177720
ISBN13:9780231177726
Release Date:October 2016
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.19 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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