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Author : Thomas F. Strychacz
Release : 1993-07-30
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 790/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism by : Thomas F. Strychacz
Download or read book Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism written by Thomas F. Strychacz. This book was released on 1993-07-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of four modernist writers and their relationship to their critics and era.
Author : Andreas Huyssen
Release : 1986
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 991/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis After the Great Divide by : Andreas Huyssen
Download or read book After the Great Divide written by Andreas Huyssen. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most comprehensive and intelligent postmodern critics of art and literature, Huyssen collects here a series of his essays on pomo . . . " —Village Voice Literary Supplement " . . . his work remains alert to the problematic relationship obtaining between marxisms and poststructuralisms." —American Literary History " . . . challenging and astute." —World Literature Today "Huyssen's level-headed account of this controversial constellation of critical voices brings welcome clarification to today's murky haze of cultural discussion and proves definitively that commentary from the tradition of the German Left has an indispensable role to play in contemporary criticism." —The German Quarterly " . . . we will certainly have, after reading this book, a deeper understanding of the forces that have led up to the present and of the possibilities still open to us." —Critical Texts " . . . a rich, multifaceted study." —The Year's Work in English Studies Huyssen argues that postmodernism cannot be regarded as a radical break with the past, as it is deeply indebted to that other trend within the culture of modernity—the historical avant-garde.
Author : Nicholas Daly
Release : 2000-02-10
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 036/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle by : Nicholas Daly
Download or read book Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle written by Nicholas Daly. This book was released on 2000-02-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Modernism, Romance and the Fin de Siècle Nicholas Daly explores the popular fiction of the 'romance revival' of the late Victorian and Edwardian years, focusing on the work of such authors as Bram Stoker, H. Rider Haggard and Arthur Conan Doyle. Rather than treating these stories as Victorian Gothic, Daly locates them as part of a 'popular modernism'. Drawing on work in cultural studies, this book argues that the vampires, mummies and treasure hunts of these adventure narratives provided a form of narrative theory of cultural change, at a time when Britain was trying to accommodate the 'new imperialism', the rise of professionalism, and the expansion of consumerist culture. Daly's wide-ranging study argues that the presence of a genre such as romance within modernism should force a questioning of the usual distinction between high and popular culture.
Author : Rita Barnard
Release : 1995-01-27
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 348/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance by : Rita Barnard
Download or read book The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance written by Rita Barnard. This book was released on 1995-01-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the response of American leftist writers from the 1930s to the rise of mass culture, and to the continued propagation of the values of consumerism during the Depression. It traces in the work of Kenneth Fearing and Nathaniel West certain theoretical positions associated with the Frankfurt school (especially Walter Benjamin) and with contemporary theorists of postmodernism.
Author : David T. Humphries
Release : 2006-03-09
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 434/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Different Dispatches by : David T. Humphries
Download or read book Different Dispatches written by David T. Humphries. This book was released on 2006-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Different Dispatches", David Humphries brings together in a new way a diverse group of well-known American writers of the inter-war period including: Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemmingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee and Robert Penn Warren. He demonstrates how these writers engage journalism in creating innovative texts that address mass culture as well as underlying cultural conditions. The book will be of interest to readers approaching these well-known authors for the first time or for scholars grappling with larger issues of cultural production and reception.
