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The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521450348
Veröffentl:
2007
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Erscheinungsdatum:
31.01.2007
Seiten:
284
Autor:
Rita Barnard
Gewicht:
617 g
Format:
235x157x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Examines the response of American leftist writers from the 1930s to the rise of mass culture.
Acknowledgements; Part I. Context: 1. Introduction: literature and mass culture in the thirties; 2. Hard times, modern times; Part II. Kenneth Fearing: 3. The politics of literary failure: fearing, mass culture and the canon; 4. The undercover agent and the culture of the spectacle; 5. 'Zowie did he live and Zowie did he die': mass culture and the fragmentation of experience; Part III. Nathaniel West: 6. 'A surfeit of shoddy': West and the spectacle of culture; 7. 'When you wish upon a star': fantasy, experience and mass culture; 8. The storyteller, the novelist and the advice columnist; Epilogue: 'happy ending'; Notes; Index.