Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism
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Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism
(Cambridge studies in American literature and culture)
Cambridge University Press, 2009, c1992
- : pbk
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注記
"First published 1992. This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
"Paperback re-issue"—Back cover
Bibliography: p. 215-224
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism Thomas Strychacz argues that modernist writers need to be understood both in their relationship to professional critics and in their relationship to an era and ethos of professionalism. In studying four modernist writers - Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos and Nathanael West - Strychacz finds that contrary to what most studies suggest, modernist writers (in the period of 1880-1940) are thoroughly caught up in the ideas and expressive forms of mass culture rather than opposed to them. Despite this, modernist writers seek to distinguish their ideas and styles from mass culture, particularly by making their works esoteric. In doing so, they are reproducing one of the main tenets of all professional groups, which is to gain social authority by forming a community around a difficult language inaccessible to the public at large. Finally Strychacz explores his own world of academia and observes that the work of professional critics in the university reproduces the strategies of modernist writers.
目次
- 1. Modernist writers and the ethos of professionalism
- 2. Fiction from a newspaperised world: Henry James's The Reverberator
- 3. The newspaperman kicked out: The Sacred Fount and literary authority
- 4. The plots of murder: un/original stories in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy
- 5. Reading John Dos Passos: reading mass culture in the USA
- 6. Miss Lonelyhearts: Nathanael West's comic-strip novel
- 7. Making the usual kind of sense: Hollywood, West and the critics in The Day of the Locust
- Notes
- Reference List
- Index.
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