Rita Barnard

The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the response of American leftist writers from the 1930s to the rise of mass culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780521450348
• ISBN-10: 0521450349
• Artikelnr.: 21796771

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Part I. Context: 1. Introduction: literature and mass culture in the thirties
2. Hard times, modern times
Part II. Kenneth Fearing: 3. The politics of literary failure: fearing, mass culture and the canon
4. The undercover agent and the culture of the spectacle
5. 'Zowie did he live and Zowie did he die': mass culture and the fragmentation of experience
Part III. Nathaniel West: 6. 'A surfeit of shoddy': West and the spectacle of culture
7. 'When you wish upon a star': fantasy, experience and mass culture
8. The storyteller, the novelist and the advice columnist
Epilogue: 'happy ending'
Notes
Index.