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This is the ambitious task that William Stott sets out to accomplish in Documentary Expression and Thirties America. As a literary and cultural chronicle Stott's book is magnificent. But as an analysis that attempts to shed light on the relationship between thirties culture and the period's social and...
UNFORTUNATELY, EVEN AN enlarged and responsible vision of humanistic studies may have serious shortsights. When Stott runs up against the interface of thirties culture and thirties society and the bridges between them that he set out to erect, he falls short. Stott's assessment of documentary expression remains primarily an...
At one point in his account Stott claims that the "documentary imagination" by informing the feelings of Americans "held together a social order rapidly disintegrating." Such arguments are more or less typical of Stott's attempts to link documentary expression to the social issues and conflicts of the thirties. And...
Perhaps by pursuing some of the ramifications of simple social facts like this Stott might have provided a more serious understanding of the social context of documentary expression. If one sets out to chronicle and make plain the subtle interplay between a culture and a society, one takes on the...
In attempting a coherent and illuminating analysis of thirties culture and society Stott founders on the limits of his literary perspective. Nonetheless where he is good--in discussing single examples of documentary expression from within that point of view, and particularly in his lengthy and brilliant appreciation of Agee's...