Father to Son: Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, and the Chicago Renaissance

2021 ◽  
pp. 222-236
Author(s):  
Timothy B. Spears
Keyword(s):  
Sherwood Anderson ◽  
Chicago Renaissance

T. S. ELIOT, WYNDHAM LEWIS AND SHERWOOD ANDERSON

1980 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-238
Author(s):  
E. W. F. TOMLIN
Keyword(s):  
Wyndham Lewis ◽  
Sherwood Anderson

scholarly journals The Tell-Tale Hand: Gothic Narratives and the Brain

Text Matters ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 96-113
Author(s):  
Neil Forsyth
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
Medical Literature ◽  
Sherwood Anderson ◽  
Emery Paper ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Montessori Method ◽  
The Brain

The opening story in Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by Sherwood Anderson is called simply “Hands.” It is about a teacher’s remarkable hands that sometimes seem to move independently of his will. This essay explores some of the relevant contexts and potential links, beginning with other representations of teachers’ hands, such as Caravaggio’s St. Matthew and the Angel, early efforts to establish a sign-language for the deaf, and including the Montessori method of teaching children to read and write by tracing the shape of letters with their hands on rough emery paper. The essay then explores filmic hands that betray or work independently of conscious intentions, from Dr Strangelove, Mad Love, to The Beast With Five Fingers. Discussion of the medical literature about the “double” of our hands in the brain, including “phantom hands,” leads on to a series of images that register Rodin’s lifelong fascination with sculpting separate hands.

Sherwood Anderson

1924 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 531
Author(s):  
Robert Morss Lovett
Keyword(s):  
Sherwood Anderson

The Double Dealers in Bohemian New Orleans

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Levin
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
William Faulkner ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Sherwood Anderson ◽  
French Quarter ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Literary Journal ◽  
Fault Lines ◽  
Southern City

This chapter chronicles New Orleans as the first Southern city widely associated with bohemianism, where the Creole heritage and the French Quarter provided one of the likeliest stand-ins for the original homeland of bohemia--the Parisian Latin Quarter--in the nation. Bohemianism flourished in the New Orleans of the 1920s, taking root in a series of local institutions, including the modernist literary journal the Double Dealer. The journal carefully navigated bohemian-bourgeois tension, the modern and the traditional, the conservative and the progressive. Featuring such writers as Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner, the New Orleans bohemia that existed on and off the pages of the Double Dealer provided a liminal territory, alternately challenging and reinforcing dominant ideologies and mediating a series of social and cultural divides. The lively, engaging, and frustrating "talk, talk, talk" (in Faulkner's words) that circulated between Double Dealer publications and the extended dialogues featured in Faulkner's roman à clef, his apprentice novel Mosquitoes (1927), reveal the gendered, racial, socioeconomic, regional, national, and temporal fault lines at the base of this Southern bohemia.

“Entering Chicago”

2020 ◽  
pp. 257-258
Author(s):  
J. M. Frank Marshall Davis
Keyword(s):  
Free Verse ◽  
Prose Poem ◽  
External Evidence ◽  
Introductory Material ◽  
Talented Tenth ◽  
Black Metropolis ◽  
Chicago Renaissance

Editors’ Note: This prose poem appears as part of the introductory material in the first (1927) volume of Frederick H. H. Robb’s remarkable compilation, The Intercollegian Wonder Book or the Negro in Chicago 1779–1927. “Entering Chicago” is attributed there to “J. M. Davis,” but internal and external evidence convince us that this was in fact contributed by journalist and poet Frank Marshall Davis shortly after his arrival in Chicago from his native Kansas. As such, the piece marks the ongoing “migration of the talented tenth” to the Black Metropolis, highlights the ubiquity of the railroad train as icon of Chicago’s modern moment, evidences Davis’s early efforts in free verse influenced by Carl Sandburg and Fenton Johnson, and prefigures the documentary spirit that would animate the most memorable works by writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance....

Chicago’s Letters Group and the Emergence of the Black Chicago Renaissance

2020 ◽  
pp. 222-244
Author(s):  
Richard A. Courage
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
University Students ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Richard Wright ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Black Literature ◽  
New Negro ◽  
New Negro Movement ◽  
Chicago Renaissance ◽  
History Of

This chapter unearths the history of a literary circle formed in 1927 to publish a journal called Letters and foster appreciation of black literature. Its leader was Chicago Defender city editor Dewey Roscoe Jones, whose reviews in his weekly “Bookshelf” column established him as black Chicago’s premier literary critic and commentator on the Harlem Renaissance. Most participants in Letters were university students, but they were joined by several older writers, including poets Fenton Johnson and W. H. A. Moore. Future Black Chicago Renaissance luminaries Richard Wright and Frank Marshall Davis visited occasionally but felt unwelcome. Recovering this missing link in cultural history deepens scholarly understanding of the New Negro movement beyond 1920s Harlem and of early evolution of an African American literary tradition in Chicago.

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