Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression

Informationen zum Autor William Solomon is Assistant Professor in the Departments of English and American Studies at Stanford University. He has published essays in American Literature! Texas Studies in Language and Literature! and Style. This is his first book. Klappentext This book examines the exchange between literature and recreational practices in 1930s America. Zusammenfassung Solomon examines the exchange between literature and recreation in 1930s America! arguing that writers of the period took inspiration from urban manifestations of the carnival spirit: amusement parks! vaudeville! and the dime museum display of human oddities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: disfigurations; 1. Disinterring Edward Dahlberg; 2. Laughter and depression: Henry Miller and the emergence of the technocarnivalesque; Intermission: vulgar Marxism; 3. Fascism and fragmentation in Nathanael West; 4. Militarism and mutilation in John Dos Passos; Postface: discharges; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: William Solomon, William (Stanford University Solomon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521813433
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81343-3
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies