Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-257) and index.
Contents
Dos Passos and the modernist impulse -- A "double foreigner": the shaping of a writer -- An education in the arts: Harvard -- "Others sorts of education": Spanish art and culture -- The end of "memories" and the beginnings of modernism: Streets of night -- "Mechanical civilization" and the images of war: the "great novel" -- The fragmented consciousness in the modernist world: Three soldiers -- The colors of America: Manhattan transfer -- The speech of the people: U.S.A. -- "A dark and garish picture": the later chronicles.
