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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970."”.
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An interpretative analysis of John Dos Passos' U.S.A.
This thesis makes a literary analysis of John Dos Passos' U.S.A. from the viewpoint of oral interpretation. The study is intended to determine if Dos Passos' prose style is adaptable to oral presentation. The study begins with an account of the author's biography as related to his works and of his …
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Speed and stasis: femininity and symbolism in John Dos Passos's 1919
… of speed, movement, symbolism and feminism in Dos Passos’s work 1919, the second book of the U.S.A. trilogy. For the women in the novel―Janey Williams, Eveline Hutchins, Eleanor Stoddard, and Daughter― there is an ever-present tension in their existence as they struggle between the static roles …
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Ears Taut to Hear: Sound Recording and Twentieth-Century American Literature
… Through an analysis of texts by Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, Alan Lomax, Sidney Bechet, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and August Wilson, I explore how literature across a number of genres and modes extended formal techniques in response to the advent of …
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A study of the interrelations between Dos Passos' personal philosophy, objectives, and techniques and the influence of the zeitgeist on them
<p>For several reasons Dos Passos is important to the development of American literature. His novels, with their integrity, breadth, and architectonic form, are painted on a larger canvas than any other American writers. In Manhattan Transfer, his fourth novel, he attempted to portray the greatest …