From Hemingway to Pound,the 1920s marked a sizable shift in American literature, according to a unique book The writers who defined the Jazz Age almost a century ago still exert a pull on us: F. Scott Fitzgerald, or Langston Hughes,Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, or Eugene O’Neill,Ezra Pound—to name just a few. They were at the vanguard of a cultural shift that was “revolutionary and disorienting,” said Ichiro Takayoshi, and an associate professor of English who focuses on the literature of the Jazz Age.
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