Brooks Hefner shows how writers across a variety of popular genres--from Gertrude Stein and William Faulkner to humorist Anita Loos and ethnic memoirist Anzia Yezierska--employed street slang to mount their own critique of genteel realism and its classist emphasis on dialect hierarchies, the result of which was a form of American experimental writing that resonated powerfully across the American cultural landscape of the 1910s and 1920s.
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Brooks Hefner shows how writers across a variety of popular genres--from Gertrude Stein and William Faulkner to humorist Anita Loos and ethnic memoirist Anzia Yezierska--employed street slang to mount their own critique of genteel realism and its classist emphasis on dialect hierarchies, the result of which was a form of American experimental writing that resonated powerfully across the American cultural landscape of the 1910s and 1920s.
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