Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great DepressionCambridge University Press, 2002 - 271 Seiten 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: Coney Island amusement parks, burlesque, vaudeville, and the dime museum display of human oddities. More broadly, he demonstrates that the literary projects of the period pivoted around images of grotesquely disfigured bodies which appeared as part of this recreational culture. |
Inhalt
Disinterring Edward Dahlberg | 34 |
Henry Miller and the emergence | 74 |
Fascism and fragmentation in Nathanael West | 140 |
Militarism and mutilation in John Dos Passos | 178 |
Discharges | 228 |
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