
	Where results make sense

Topic: John dos Passos

Related Topics

The Big Money

New York City

Manhattan Transfer

Crash of 1929

Gunnison, Colorado

Ogunquit, Maine

Still life

1938 in literature

Overland Park, Kansas

Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Benjamin Whorf

Sacco and Vanzetti

The Sun Also Rises

John Kennedy Toole

	John Dos Passos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dos Passos was born in Chicago, where his father was a wealthy Chicago lawyer of Madeiran Portuguese origin who could afford to give him the best education.
		Dos Passos used an experimental technique in these novels, incorporating newspaper clippings, autobiography, biography and fictional realism to paint a vast landscape of American culture during the first decades of the twentieth century.
		Dos Passos' political and social reflections in the novel are deeply pessimistic about the political and economic direction of the United States, and few of the characters manage to hold onto their ideals through the First World War.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Dos_Passos (1157 words)

	VQR » John Dos Passos, 1896?1970: Modernist Recorder of the American Scene
		John Dos Passos, born in 1896, was one of a remarkable group of Americans who came of literary age during the decade after World War I. The group included Scott Fitzgerald, born the same year, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, e.e.
		Dos Passos was lied to by leaders of the Republican government, and from what he learned he soon became convinced that Communists had been the instigators of Robles's death.
		Dos Passos was very much aware of this and sharpened his literary techniques by studying art and developing a more-than-passable style that has touches of expressionism, precisionism, and even a bit of cubism about it.
	www.vqronline.org /articles/1996/autumn/ludington-john-dos-passos (3897 words)

	John Dos Passos
		John Dos Passos, the illegitimate son of a prominent American attorney, was born in Chicago in 1896.
		Dos Passos developed the experimental literary device where the narratives intersect and continue from one novel to the next.
		Dos Passos was active in the campaign against the growth of fascism in Europe.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jpassos.htm (1452 words)

	John Dos Passos per Daniel Aaron
		The radicalism of Dos Passos simmered in the early twenties, boiled furiously between 1927 and 1932, and began to cool thereafter.
		Dos Passos did not distinguish capitalism's official representatives from the unprotesting multitudes unfortunate enough to have been born under the system and too stupid to oppose it.
		Dos Passos in the summer of 1937 was well on his way to becoming a class enemy.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/aaron-chap15.html (3218 words)

	Gadfly Online.
		While Dos Passos’ books are essential reading for any student of the Lost Generation, the University of Virginia Art Museum brings an additional dimension of the writer to light with an exhibit of more than 80 of his watercolors and drawings of the people and landscapes he encountered on his extensive travels.
		Dos Passos evidently came to see his artwork as more than a hobby, and his first public exhibition took place on January 3, 1923 at the Whitney Studio Club, where it ran for three weeks.
		Dos Passos’ early works are soft and pleasing watercolors; many depict the lovely countryside of Spain, where as a young man he served as a volunteer ambulance driver.
	www.gadflyonline.com /9-10-01/art-passos.HTML (991 words)

	American Passages - Unit 11. Modernist Portraits: Authors
		Involved in many radical political movements, Dos Passos saw the expansion of consumer capitalism in the first decades of the twentieth century as a dangerous threat to the health of the nation.
		Though not a party member, Dos Passos participated in Communist activities until 1934, when the Communists' disruption of a Socialist rally convinced him that the Communists were more concerned with achieving power than with the social reform about which he cared passionately.
		Dos Passos believed that American society had been thoroughly corrupted by the greed its thriving capitalist system promoted, and he saw little hope for real reform of such an entrenched system.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit11/authors-8.html (474 words)

	Ross Lockridge, Jr. on John Dos Passos
		John Dos Passos and his works are studied, discussed, and evaluated in undergraduate and graduate courses devoted to the study of American literature everywhere throughout the United States.
		Dos Passos is one of those who believe that part of the trouble lies in the fact that one half of the world--and that the most cultivated, the most intelligent, the most energetic--steadfastly refuses to see how the other half lives.
		I illustrate the variety of new techniques which Dos Passos employs as a writer, how the attempt is made at times to perform in prose the traditional functions of poetry, how much of the novel is experimental in technique, how much of it is at the same time simple, straightforward, unadorned.
	www.raintreecounty.com /DosPasso.html (1893 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: Modernism and Experimentation: Authors: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Like Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos began as a left-wing radical but moved to the right as he aged.
		Dos Passos's new techniques included "newsreel" sections taken from contemporary headlines, popular songs, and advertisements, as well as "biographies" briefly setting forth the lives of important Americans of the period, such as inventor Thomas Edison, labor organizer Eugene Debs, film star Rudolph Valentino, financier J.P. Morgan, and sociologist Thorstein Veblen.
		Both the newsreels and biographies lend Dos Passos's novels a documentary value; a third technique, the "camera eye," consists of stream of consciousness prose poems that offer a subjective response to the events described in the books.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/LIT/passos.htm (225 words)

	Mark Twain and John Dos Passos On War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dos Passos uses John Doe as a device to illustrate the namelessness of the soldiers fighting in the war.
		Dos Passos composes an elegy of nameless, numbered soldiers that blindly do as told and die bravely.
		Dos Passos uses his Harlem Renaissance style well, and to the reader, the meaning is much more apparent on its own merit.
	www.poetsforum.com /papers/232_1.html (1067 words)

	PAL: John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
		E301.D6 A pushcart at the curb, by John Dos Passos.
		Dos Passos, the critics, and the writer's intention.
		White, Ray L. "John Dos Passos and the Federal Bureau of Investigation." Journal of Modern Literature 14.1 (Sumr 1987): 97-110.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap7/dospassos.html (544 words)

	John Dos Passos
		In 1896, when Dos Passos was born in Chicago, America was still largely rural and just beginning to experience the first shock waves of a vast, industrial transformation.
		Of all the forces on the political left which Dos Passos supported, the Communist Party, disciplined and organized, was the only one during the decades after World War I which appeared to have a chance of successfully organizing the working class.
		Dos Passos plunged into a study of American history with the singular intent of discovering how the founders of the nation and Abraham Lincoln prized liberty and sought to preserve it for future generations.
	www.csupomona.edu /~rljohnson/Professional/DosPassos.html (2926 words)

	John Roderigo Dos Passos Biography / Biography of John Roderigo Dos Passos Main Biography
		John Dos Passos was born in Chicago on Jan. 14, 1896, the illegitimate son of a noted New York lawyer, John Randolph Dos Passos, and a wealthy Virginian, Lucy Addison Sprigg.
		As a boy, Dos Passos lived principally on the Virginia farm of his mother's family, and he also traveled frequently with his mother to Mexico, Belgium, and England.
		In 1917 Dos Passos was in Spain, studying Spanish culture.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-john-roderigo-dos-passos (235 words)

	John Dos Passos - Bentley Publishers - Automotive Books and Repair Manuals
		John Dos Passos was born in Chicago in 1896.
		The Dos Passos family was well traveled, and by the time Dos Passos entered Harvard he had lived in Belgium, England, Mexico, and Washington, D.C. After his graduation form Harvard in 1916 he went to Spain, hoping to study architecture.
		Dos Passos continued to write prolifically until his death in 1970, producing a number of "documentary" novels, some unconventional travelogues, and even some historical studies.
	www.bentleypublishers.com /author.htm?authorId=54 (491 words)

	John Dos Passos, Blaise Cendrars, and the "other" modernism Twentieth Century Literature - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dos Passos's translations of Cendrars's Panama (1913), Transsiberien (1913), and selections from Documentaires (1923) and Feuilles de Route (1924) between the first and second volumes of U.S.A. attest to his continued, engaged interest in Cendrars's poetry.
		Dos Passos, of course, began his writing career as a poet, publishing Eight Harvard Poets in 1917 and A Pushcart at the Curb in 1922, both of which contain a wide assortment of imagist and free-form poems.
		As is amply evidenced in the current criticism, Dos Passos continues to be assigned to the tried traditions of the Anglo school of modernism, of imagism and Ezra Pound.(3) I wish to question these assignations.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0403/is_n3_v42/ai_19416371/pg_2 (427 words)

	Amazon.com: Manhattan Transfer: Books: John Dos Passos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dos Passsos's book is like a running paragraph that only briefly stops to take us from one sub-scape to another - his voyeuristic way of relating the social current of WWI and 1920's New York to the everyday lives of people, many of whom are caught up in that current.
		Dos Passos does not quite uncover any new ground or dig deep into any one point - he covers a lot of ground - there is a sense of equilibrium one gets from reading his prose.
		As an urban reporter here, Dos Passos excels at capturing the snatches of dialogue, smells of the bums, grit of the air (it's rare that nature itself is shown as less than threatening, when it's evident at all), and shouts and noise that, then as now, relentlessly hums and pounds along Manhattan's streets.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0395574234?v=glance (2130 words)

	John Dos Passos - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Rodrigo Dos Passos, born January 14, 1896, in Chicago, Illinois, United States - died September 28, 1970, in Baltimore, Maryland, was a novelist and artist.
		John Dos Passos's father was a wealthy Chicago lawyer of portuguese origin and could afford to give him the best education.
		Dos Passos broke with Hemingway and also Herbert Matthews (The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas).
	voyager.in /John_Dos_Passos (974 words)

	Dos Passos, John Roderigo articles on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dos Passos, John Roderigo DOS PASSOS, JOHN RODERIGO [Dos Passos, John Roderigo] 1896-1970, American novelist, b.
		In his fiction, Dos Passos is said to have mingled the naturalism of Theodore
		Dos Passos, John Randolph DOS PASSOS, JOHN RANDOLPH [Dos Passos, John Randolph], 1844-1917, American lawyer, b.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/03769.html (125 words)

	John Dos Passos and Rosinante to the Road Again
		John Dos Passos's life is recounted in a well-received biography by Townsend Ludington, first published in 1980 and re-released in paperback in 1998.
		In Rosinante, Dos Passos discusses a number of literary masters who are now known as part of the Generation of '98 (that's 1898, of course).
		Dos Passos was also taken by the zarzuela, a unique Spanish form of musical theatre.
	www.cardinalbook.com /moredosp.htm (563 words)

	The Art of John Dos Passos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		John Dos Passos was born in Chicago, Illinois is 1896 and was raised in Europe by his mother.
		John Dos Passos wrote the foreword to the catalog for Rattner's first one man show in the United States at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1936.
		Dos Passos responded by writing a series of articles critical of communist ideology and a series of novels attacking the radical leftist movement.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/5aa/5aa370.htm (1116 words)

	John Dos Passos (1896-1970)
		To appreciate fully the nuances of Dos Passos's language, the significance of his descriptive details, and the force of his sarcasm, a reader needs to know a lot of history.
		The teacher probably needs to do some explaining, though he or she should avoid explaining the biographies to death.
		Dos Passos sets this life very firmly in its historical context, and students might discuss the whole sweep of history brought to life in the biography and what patterns and recurring themes they see.
	www.georgetown.edu /faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/dospasso.html (686 words)

	Jessica's Well Main Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dos Passos is best understood through the prism of his World War I experiences, which made him a vehement opponent of unblinking organization, which he blamed for the war.
		Dos Passos first became disenchanted with the Left in Spain during the Civil War when a friend of his, a professor at Princeton if I remember right, was executed by the Leftists--Communists or Anarchists, I'm not sure.
		John Dos Passos had his political epiphany in 1939 and could no longer championed the cause of the world "progressives" against the "reactionaries".
	www.jessicaswell.com /MT/archives/000872.html (9900 words)

	Viramontes wins John Dos Passos literature prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Dos Passos prize has been granted annually since 1980 by faculty members in the Department of English, Philosophy and Modern Languages at Longwood College, a liberal arts college in Virginia, to American creative writers in the middle stages of their careers.
		Previous recipients of the Dos Passos prize, which is funded by the Longwood Foundation and includes a cash award of $1,000 and a medal, have included Graham Greene and Tom Wolfe.
		According to Martha E. Cook, professor of English at Longwood College and chair of the Dos Passos prize committee, Viramontes was one of eight nominees se lected by committee members for the 1995 prize.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/96/8.8.96/Viramontes-prize.html (362 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dos Passos was born January 14, 1896, in Chicago and educated at Harvard University.
		After the publication of U.S.A., Dos Passos underwent a change of philosophy; previously radical in outlook, his philosophy became increasingly conservative.
		At the time of his death, on September 28, 1970, in Baltimore, Maryland, Dos Passos had finished most of a novel, The Thirteenth Chronicle.
	www.uib.no /ped/dospassos.html (309 words)

	Library of America: John Dos Passos: Travel Books and Other Writings 1916-1941
		Dos Passos arrived in Spain for the first time in October 1916 and spent a little more than three months there.
		Dos Passos returned to Spain for a longer stay in August 1919, living and traveling there for eight months.
		Dos Passos' next travel book, Orient Express, is based on his trip to the Balkans, Turkey, the Caucasus, and the Middle East during the latter half of 1921.
	www.loa.org /volume.jsp?RequestID=199§ion=notes (1608 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)