American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930sUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1997 M10 15 - 182 páginas Nathanael West has been hailed as “an apocalyptic writer,” “a writer on the left,” and “a precursor to postmodernism.” But until now no critic has succeeded in fully engaging West’s distinctive method of negation. In American Superrealism, Jonathan Veitch examines West’s letters, short stories, screenplays and novels—some of which are discussed here for the first time—as well as West’s collaboration with William Carlos Williams during their tenure as the editors of Contact. Locating West in a lively, American avant-garde tradition that stretches from Marcel Duchamp to Andy Warhol, Veitch explores the possibilities and limitations of dada and surrealism—the use of readymades, scatalogical humor, human machines, “exquisite corpses”—as modes of social criticism. American Superrealism offers what is surely the definitive study of West, as well as a provocative analysis that reveals the issue of representation as the central concern of Depression-era America. |
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... Balso Snell is a dadaesque geste at the expense of art . This time around , however , West undertakes not just a disavowal of high mod- ernism and the idealism of its art - for - art's - sake aestheticism , but a cri- tique of nothing ...
... Balso Snell before it becomes submerged into the larger themes and interests of West's later work . 10 Summarizing the plot of this novella is not an easy task . Balso Snell is , to say the least , an odd book . The story follows the ...
... BALSO SNELL 1. Nathanael West , " The Fake , " box 1 , Jay Martin Collection , Huntington Library , 8-9 . 2. Ibid . , 11-12 . 3. Although West claimed to have spent two years in Paris , he actually spent less then three months there ...
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The Dream Life of Balso Snell | 2 |
Contact | 47 |
Miss Lonelyhearts | 67 |
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