American Modernism (Re)Considered

What exactly is modernism and who are modernist writers? What distinguishes American modernism from its European counterpart?

American Modernism (Re)Considered questions the principal distinction between modernism and other genres/movements/styles in literature through new critical readings of canonical modernist texts alongside texts which pose a problem for modernism due to their ambiguous, if not marginal, relation to some of its predominant tenets. It asks: Is modernism characterized pri...