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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... Draft , 38 ) " This is the kind of note , " Praskins tells us in his treatment , " that Miss Lonelyhearts should answer on the standpoint of morals , etc. " ( Treat- ment , 5 ; italics mine ) . But Tracy revels in this transgression of ...
... drafts of Advice to the Lovelorn was loaned to me by Twentieth Century Fox Studios . 19. This is essentially the argument that Lary May makes in Screening ... draft dated 9/29/33 , together with some additional Notes to Pages 70-79 163.
... drafts . The date on the first one ( labeled " First Draft ” ) is partially obscured , but it could be as early as January 1943. It is forty - seven pages in length . The second draft ( la- beled " Second Draft " ) is dated 18 January ...
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The Dream Life of Balso Snell | 2 |
Contact | 47 |
Miss Lonelyhearts | 67 |
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