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American superrealism : Nathanael West and the politics of representation in the 1930s / Jonathan Veitch.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Wisconsin project on American writersPublication details: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 182 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780299157036
  • 0299157032
  • 058507187X
  • 9780585071879
  • 9786612424168
  • 6612424168
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: American superrealism.DDC classification:
  • 813/.52 21
LOC classification:
  • PS3545.E8334 Z9 1997eb
Other classification:
  • 18.06
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Who Can We Shoot? The Crisis of Representation in the 1930s -- PART I -- 1. American Superrealism -- 2. Euclid's Asshole: The Dream Life of Balsa Snell -- PART II -- 3. ""Lousy with Pure / Reeking with Stark"": Contact -- 4. The People Talk: Miss Lonelyhearts -- 5. The Folklore of Capitalism: A Cool Million -- 6. The Cliches Are Having a Ball: The Day of the Locust -- Postscript: Madonna's Bustier -- or ""The Burning of Los Angeles"" -- Notes -- Index.
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  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Review: "Nathanael West has been hailed as "an apocalyptic writer," "a writer on the left," and "a precursor to postmodernism." But until now no critic has succeeded in fully engaging West's distinctive method of negation. In American Superrealism, Jonathan Veitch examines West's letters, short stories, screenplays and novels - some of which are discussed here for the first time - as well as West's collaboration with William Carlos Williams during their tenure as the editors of Contact. Locating West in a lively, American avant-garde tradition that sketches from Marcel Duchamp to Andy Warhol, Veitch explores the possibilities and limitations of dada and surrealism - the use of readymades, scatalogical humor, human machines, "exquisite corpses"--As modes of social criticism."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-174) and index.

"Nathanael West has been hailed as "an apocalyptic writer," "a writer on the left," and "a precursor to postmodernism." But until now no critic has succeeded in fully engaging West's distinctive method of negation. In American Superrealism, Jonathan Veitch examines West's letters, short stories, screenplays and novels - some of which are discussed here for the first time - as well as West's collaboration with William Carlos Williams during their tenure as the editors of Contact. Locating West in a lively, American avant-garde tradition that sketches from Marcel Duchamp to Andy Warhol, Veitch explores the possibilities and limitations of dada and surrealism - the use of readymades, scatalogical humor, human machines, "exquisite corpses"--As modes of social criticism."--Jacket.

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Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Who Can We Shoot? The Crisis of Representation in the 1930s -- PART I -- 1. American Superrealism -- 2. Euclid's Asshole: The Dream Life of Balsa Snell -- PART II -- 3. ""Lousy with Pure / Reeking with Stark"": Contact -- 4. The People Talk: Miss Lonelyhearts -- 5. The Folklore of Capitalism: A Cool Million -- 6. The Cliches Are Having a Ball: The Day of the Locust -- Postscript: Madonna's Bustier -- or ""The Burning of Los Angeles"" -- Notes -- Index.

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