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Fragments of Literary Modernism in Joan Didion's The Last Thing He Wanted
- CEA Critic
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 81, Number 1, March 2019
- pp. 57-63
- 10.1353/cea.2019.0009
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
"From her earliest essays about California during the 1960s to her National Book Award-winning memoir on the death of her husband, Didion has turned to modernist writers to make sense of her experiences. In the title essay of Slouching Towards Bethlehem, she explicitly invokes William Butler Yeats's vision of social and cultural disintegration after World War I when she blames the hippies for loosing mere anarchy upon the country. She takes a cue from modernist techniques by fracturing the essay's structure to reflect the cultural fragmentation around her."
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