Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1985

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Pearce, Howard D.

Abstract

Poet Gwendolyn Brooks and novelist Sherwood Anderson shared the same literary goal and eventually embraced the same or similar techniques for reaching this goal. Their mutual goal was to loosen the language, to make it more responsive to the needs of the people. And their primary technique revolved around human interactions within a community setting. With the limitations of the language as their adversary, Brooks and Anderson created their respective communities of Bronzeville and Winesburg to demonstrate not only how language inhibits the development of human communication, but also inhibits the creative development of the writer. As the characters' relationships with each other create winding, circling, intertwining patterns of human interactions, similar patterns are paralleled in Brooks's and Anderson's literary styles, whereby they shake, twist, and mold the language as a demonstration of its inadequacy.

Extent

97 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1985.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT14237

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