Format:
1 online resource (338 pages)
ISBN:
9783030351953
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Words and Music -- Chapter 2 Yes, but Is It Art? The Revolutionary Transformations of Michael Gold -- The Shapes Arise! -- Strange American Pseudonym -- A World of Steel Bars, Not of Old Stone and Ivy -- Updating Modernism -- Chapter 3 The Longing for a Line: Modernism Meets the New Deal -- Through Chaos to Crisis -- Useful Music, Useless Words -- Crisis of Demand -- The Pattern -- Part II Narrative -- Chapter 4 'A Moment of Ecstasy, a Lifetime of Regret': The Popular Limits of the Proletarian Novel -- A Bitter Amusement -- A Laughter That Does Not Laugh -- Crisis of Demand -- Defects Prove Our Commodities -- A Moment of Ecstasy, a Lifetime of Regret -- Chapter 5 The Bastard as Art Object Bastardised: Erskine Caldwell's Fine Art of Standing Still -- Delicious Nowhere -- The Disinterested Gaze -- Love and Hunger -- Recovering Reputations -- Knitting Patterns -- Part III Culture Industry -- Chapter 6 Gladiators in the Century of Progress: The World's Fairs, Pulp Modernism and Popular Contests of the 1930s -- Wheels Within Wheels -- Dancing in the Dark -- Secret Agency -- Chapter 7 Affirming the Modernist Principle: Invisible Man, Blues Signifiers and the Return of the Bottom Dogs -- New Elements -- Practical Mystic -- Return of the Bottom Dogs -- Transition -- Case Overload -- Chapter 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030351946
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783030351946
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
;
Englisch
;
Arbeiterliteratur
;
Moderne
;
Geschichte 1856-1952
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=6000734
