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Resumen de El entretenimiento de las noches americanas
Para quién es
For readers curious about American literature in the early 1900s, and anyone who enjoys learning about authors as well as their books.
De qué trata este libro
American Nights Entertainment is a book by Grant M. Overton, an American critic and writer who died in 1930. Overton wrote about the fiction of his own day, in the years when American novels and stories were changing fast and new authors were finding large audiences.
The book looks at the people behind the stories. It offers portraits of writers who shaped fiction in the early decades of the twentieth century, and it asks what made each one worth reading. You get a sense of how a working critic of that time saw his contemporaries. Let us begin with the first idea: that to understand a story, it helps to know the writer.
En este resumen
- 1Know the writer to read the workFree
- 2Fiction was changing in early twentieth century America
- 3A critic writes for the common reader
- 4Old opinions still teach us today
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Know the writer to read the work
Overton belonged to a tradition of criticism that treats an author as a person with habits, influences and a place in the world. A portrait of a writer, in this tradition, is a way into the books. The reader learns where the author came from and what shaped the way he or she saw life.
This approach was common in the magazines and review pages of the period. Critics wrote for general readers, not only for scholars. They wanted to help people choose what to read and enjoy it more.
For a reader today, the lesson is simple. A book often makes more sense when you know something about the person who wrote it and the time in which it was written.
That’s 1 of 4 key points.
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Questions about El entretenimiento de las noches americanas
What is American Nights Entertainment about?
It is a book by Grant M. Overton that presents portraits of American writers who shaped fiction in the early twentieth century, written for general readers who want to know the authors behind the stories.
Who was Grant M. Overton?
Grant M. Overton was an American critic and writer who died in 1930. He wrote about the authors and fiction of his own day, aiming his work at ordinary readers rather than scholars.
When was American Nights Entertainment written?
It belongs to the early twentieth century, the period Overton himself lived and wrote in. It discusses writers of his own time, so it reflects the tastes and views of that era.
Is American Nights Entertainment hard to read?
No. Overton wrote for general readers in a plain, friendly style. You do not need training in literature to follow his portraits of authors and their work.
Is American Nights Entertainment worth reading today?
It is worth reading if you enjoy literary history. It shows how a critic of the 1920s saw the writers around him and how tastes in fiction have shifted since.