Gertrude Stein and the Making of an American Celebrity

Informationen zum Autor Karen Leick is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University. Klappentext By examining not the ways that Stein portrayed the popular in her work, but the ways the popular portrayed her, this study shows that there was an intimate relationship between literary modernism and mainstream culture and that modernist writers and texts were much more well-known than has been previously acknowledged. Zusammenfassung By examining not the ways that Stein portrayed the popular in her work, but the ways the popular portrayed her, this study shows that there was an intimate relationship between literary modernism and mainstream culture and that modernist writers and texts were much more well-known than has been previously acknowledged. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: The 1910s: Experimental Art and the American Public Chapter Three: The 1920s: Modernism and the Mainstream Press Chapter Four: The 1930s: Bestselling Modernism Conclusion: Stein and Hollywood Notes Selected Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Karen Leick, Karen (Ohio State University) Leick, Leick Karen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.2009
• EAN: 9780415994729
• ISBN: 978-0-415-99472-9
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000