Literature, amusement, and technology in the Great Depression /
"Literature, Amusement and Technology examines the exchange between literature and recreational practices in 1930s America. William Solomon argues that autobiographical writers like Edward Dahlberg and Henry Miller took aesthetic inspiration from urban manifestations of the carnival spirit: Con...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: disfigurations
- Disinterring Edward Dahlberg
- Laughter and Depression: Henry Miller and the emergence of the technocarnivalesque
- Intermission: vulgar Marxism
- Fascism and fragmentation in Nathanael West
- Militarism and mutilation in John Dos Passos
- Postface: discharges
- 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.
- Introduction: Disfigurations 1
- 1 Disinterring Edward Dahlberg 34
- 2 Laughter and Depression: Henry Miller and the emergence of the technocarnivalesque 74
- Intermission: Vulgar Marxism 117
- 3 Fascism and fragmentation in Nathanael West 140
- 4 Militarism and mutilation in John Dos Passos 178
- Postface: Discharges 228