TY - BOOK ID - 77908368 TI - Writing the lost generation : expatriate autobiography and American modernism PY - 2008 SN - 1587297434 9781587297434 9781587296895 1587296896 PB - Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, DB - UniCat KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Autobiography. KW - Authors, American KW - American prose literature KW - American authors KW - Crepuscolarismo KW - Literary movements KW - Autobiographies KW - Autobiography KW - Egodocuments KW - Memoirs KW - Biography as a literary form KW - Biography KW - History and criticism. KW - History and criticism KW - Technique UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77908368 AB - In Writing the Lost Generation, Craig Monk unlocks a series of neglected texts while reinvigorating our reading of more familiar ones. Well-known autobiographies by Malcolm Cowley, Ernest Hemingway, and Gertrude Stein are joined here by works from a variety of lesser-known, but still important, expatriate American writers, including Sylvia Beach, Alfred Kreymborg, Samuel Putnam, and Harold Stearns. By bringing together the self-reflective works of the Lost Generation and probing the ways the writers portrayed themselves, Monk provides an exciting and comprehensive overview of modernist expatri ER -