American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930sUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1997 M11 1 - 200 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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... Contact 4. The People Talk : Miss Lonelyhearts 5. The Folklore of Capitalism : A Cool Million 47 67 88 6. The Clichés Are Having a Ball : The Day of the Locust 113 Postscript : Madonna's Bustier ; or " The Burning of Los Angeles " 132 ...
... Contact 4. The People Talk: Miss Lonelyhearts 5. The Folklore of Capitalism: A Cool Million 6. The Clichés Are Having a Ball: The Day of the Locust Postscript: Mad0nna's Bustier; or “The Burning of Los Angeles” Notes Index ix X1 3 15 23 ...
... contact with invisible empires , " Arnold wrote . The map of no one of them is to be found in an atlas , but a match , a package of borax , a diamond , a storage battery , a radio set is a link between each American and this series of ...
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Contact | 47 |
Miss Lonelyhearts | 67 |
A Cool Million | 88 |
The Day of the Locust | 113 |
Madonnas Bustier or The Burning of Los Angeles | 132 |
Notes | 139 |
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