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Chapter 23 - Literary Modernism

from Part III - Literary and Critical Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2022

Paul Devlin
Affiliation:
United States Merchant Marine Academy, New York
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This chapter surveys Ellison’s complex relationship with other key Modernist writers, as expressed both explicitly in his letters and chapters, and implicitly in his short stories, in Invisible Man, and in Three Days Before the Shooting … . Examining key moments in his intellectual formation, such as his encounters with Eliot and Joyce during his undergraduate studies at Tuskegee, it also maps out the paradox of his attested admiration for but rare intertextual dialogue with Hemingway, and his ambivalent and shifting positions on Faulkner. Lastly, it suggests that despite Ellison’s and Morrison’s mutual and clearly voiced antipathy, these two writers have far more in common, particularly in terms of their conceptions of Modernism, than either would like to admit. Throughout my overview, I will take account of the best pre-existing scholarship on this subject.

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Print publication year: 2021

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  • Literary Modernism
  • Edited by Paul Devlin, United States Merchant Marine Academy, New York
  • Book: Ralph Ellison in Context
  • Online publication: 14 January 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108773546.024
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  • Literary Modernism
  • Edited by Paul Devlin, United States Merchant Marine Academy, New York
  • Book: Ralph Ellison in Context
  • Online publication: 14 January 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108773546.024
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  • Literary Modernism
  • Edited by Paul Devlin, United States Merchant Marine Academy, New York
  • Book: Ralph Ellison in Context
  • Online publication: 14 January 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108773546.024
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