American Literature / Unit 15 AML 1434 short lesson, about 20 seconds
John Dos Passos and the *U.S.A.* Trilogy
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The idea
The witness quotes Dos Passos's Three Soldiers of nineteen twenty-one calling civilization a vast edifice of sham whose fullest expression was the war. His later trilogy mixes narrative with newsreels, biographies and a stream-of-consciousness camera eye to portray a whole country.
In practice
Newsreels, biographies, and a camera eye.
Where people slip
The collage method is the trilogy's argument.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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