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Abstract
This thesis examines American fiction within the cultural and aesthetic framework of Modernism. It argues that American modernist prose transformed the inherited realist novel by representing crisis, fragmentation, urban speed, social disillusionment, and unstable identity through new narrative techniques. The study connects historical context with literary form: war, industrial modernity, migration, capitalism, and the crisis of the American Dream shaped prose fiction. Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, John Dos Passos, and Harlem Renaissance writers show that American Modernism was a diverse movement united by experimentation.
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