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GWENDOLYN BROOKS AND SHERWOOD ANDERSON: COMMUNICATION VS. LANGUAGE

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1985
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Poet Gwendolyn Brooks and novelist Sherwood Anderson shared the same literary goal and eventually embraced the same or similar techniques for reaching this goal. Their mutual goal was to loosen the language, to make it more responsive to the needs of the people. And their primary technique revolved around human interactions within a community setting. With the limitations of the language as their adversary, Brooks and Anderson created their respective communities of Bronzeville and Winesburg to demonstrate not only how language inhibits the development of human communication, but also inhibits the creative development of the writer. As the characters' relationships with each other create winding, circling, intertwining patterns of human interactions, similar patterns are paralleled in Brooks's and Anderson's literary styles, whereby they shake, twist, and mold the language as a demonstration of its inadequacy.
Title: GWENDOLYN BROOKS AND SHERWOOD ANDERSON: COMMUNICATION VS. LANGUAGE.
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Name(s): STOVER, JOHNNIE MAE.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Pearce, Howard D., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1985
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 97 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Poet Gwendolyn Brooks and novelist Sherwood Anderson shared the same literary goal and eventually embraced the same or similar techniques for reaching this goal. Their mutual goal was to loosen the language, to make it more responsive to the needs of the people. And their primary technique revolved around human interactions within a community setting. With the limitations of the language as their adversary, Brooks and Anderson created their respective communities of Bronzeville and Winesburg to demonstrate not only how language inhibits the development of human communication, but also inhibits the creative development of the writer. As the characters' relationships with each other create winding, circling, intertwining patterns of human interactions, similar patterns are paralleled in Brooks's and Anderson's literary styles, whereby they shake, twist, and mold the language as a demonstration of its inadequacy.
Identifier: 14237 (digitool), FADT14237 (IID), fau:11047 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1985.
Subject(s): Brooks, Gwendolyn,--1917---Criticism and interpretation
Anderson, Sherwood,--1876-1941--Criticism and interpretation
American poetry--African American authors
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