Jonathan Veitch

Broschiertes Buch

American Superrealism

Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s

Beschreibung

This study of "apocalyptic writer" Nathanael West examines his body of work, exploring his distinctive method of negation. Locating him in an American avant-garde tradition, the author considers the possibilities and limitations of dada and surrealism as modes of social criticism.

Autor

Jonathan Veitch was professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is now chairman of humanities at the New School for Social Research in New York. This is his first book.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780299157043
• ISBN-10: 0299157040
• Artikelnr.: 22444243