Exile’s Return: A Narrative of Ideas

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Malcolm Cowley
His Exile’s Return: A Narrative of Ideas (1934; rev. ed. published 1951 under the subtitle A Literary Odyssey of the 1920’s) is an important social and literary history of the expatriate American writers of the 1920s. In it he signaled the importance of their rediscovery of…
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His Exile’s Return: A Narrative of Ideas (1934; rev. ed. published 1951 under the subtitle A Literary Odyssey of the 1920’s) is an important social and literary history of the expatriate American writers of the 1920s. In it he signaled the importance of their rediscovery of…
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…literary memoir of the 1920s, Exile’s Return (1934)—what they now regarded as the escapism and self-indulgence of their modernist mentors. Given the political and economic calamities at home and abroad, they sought to focus on the plight of workers, sharecroppers, African Americans, the poor, and the dispossessed. Further, they wanted…
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…literary memoir of the 1920s, Exile’s Return (1934)—what they now regarded as the escapism and self-indulgence of their modernist mentors. Given the political and economic calamities at home and abroad, they sought to focus on the plight of workers, sharecroppers, African Americans, the poor, and the dispossessed. Further, they wanted…
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