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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... studio's enthusiasm was surely derived from the story's obvious sim- ilarities with Smith , which was in turn patterned after its even more suc- cessful precursor , Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - both Columbia pictures . Like them , West and ...
... studio chairman at Universal for the guild , and six months later he was elected to its ex- ecutive board ( Art of His Life , 349 ) . West gives an interesting account of his in- volvement with the guild in this letter to Edmund Wilson ...
... studio files , 4/26/33 , 2-4 . This reader's report along with the treatment and subsequent 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 ...
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The Dream Life of Balso Snell | 2 |
Contact | 47 |
Miss Lonelyhearts | 67 |
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