HAHAHA totally fucked.

[blustocking]

Sooooo, my grasp on the term "modernist" wasn't too firm and now I have two days to write a paper on a modernist writer that's not Cather, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos, Steinbeck, Hemingway, or Faulkner. PREFERABLY a book I've already read, which is unlikely, because I seem to like post-modern or much older fare.

Crap. Any suggestions? I can't find a really thorough list on the interwebs.

ALSO, Brownie is coming to speak on Wednesday and I'm skipping class to ask the fucker a question. I hope I phrase it better than, "How the fuck do you sleep at night?"

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[ponsonbybritt.livejournal.com]

From the Wikipedia page on Modernism:

Leading lights within the literary wing of this movement (or, rather, these movements) include:

* Rafael Alberti
* Gabriele D'Annunzio
* Guillaume Apollinaire
* Louis Aragon
* Djuna Barnes
* Basil Bunting
* Jean Cocteau
* Joseph Conrad
* H.D.
* T. S. Eliot
* Paul Eluard
* William Faulkner
* Hugo von Hofmannsthal
* Max Jacob
* James Joyce
* Franz Kafka
* D. H. Lawrence
* Wyndham Lewis
* Federico García Lorca
* Marianne Moore
* Robert Musil
* Ezra Pound
* Marcel Proust
* Pierre Reverdy
* Gertrude Stein
* Wallace Stevens
* Tristan Tzara
* Paul Valery
* Robert Walser
* William Carlos Williams
* Virginia Woolf
* W. B. Yeats

[blustocking.livejournal.com]

Yeeeeah, I saw that too. I guess I was just hoping there were more.

If it didn't have to be an American, I could do it...but looks like I'll be reading a new one. Crap.

[ponsonbybritt.livejournal.com]

Ah, I didn't catch that they had to be Americans. Found here another list includes (with repeats 'cuz I don't feel like editing):

Poets: Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and E.E. Cummings.

Prose: Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, and Willa Cather.

The American Modernist Period also produced many other writers that are considered to be writers of Modernist Period Subclasses. For example, F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered a writer of The Jazz Age, Langston Hughes and W.E.B. DuBois writers of The Harlem Renaissance, and Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Ernest Hemingway writers of The Lost Generation.

So... Fitzgerald? Hughes? DuBois? Or Lewis perhaps? I found another site that mentioned Thorton Wilder as one. I wonder if Our Town would be acceptable. Ah well...

[blustocking.livejournal.com]

Can't be poets and can't be Cather, Fitzgerald, or Hemingway either.
Severely limited here. BUT, I'm reading Babbitt (conveniently transcribed on Bartleby.com) right now. :) It's good. Just with I had the actual book in my hands. Takes time to get used to reading online.

Jill's editor says....

[(Anonymous)]

"wish" not with

[locopuff.livejournal.com]

Willa Cather is good and is a quick read.

[locopuff.livejournal.com]

Oh, duh. It's too bad you can't read her for this.

[blustocking.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we already read The Professor's House. It was okay. Babbitt is turning out to be really good though.