大恐慌下の文学、娯楽、科学技術<br>Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

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大恐慌下の文学、娯楽、科学技術
Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 284 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780521813433
  • DDC分類 810.90052

基本説明

Examines the exchange between literature and recreation in 1930s America, arguing that writers of the period took inspiration from urban manifestations of the carnical spirit: amusement parks, vaudeville, and the dime museum display of human oddities.

Full Description

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. Figures of corporeal fragmentation also proved important to novelists such as Nathanael West and John Dos Passos who were concerned to resist the ideological force of spectacular forms of mass entertainment like the World's Fairs, Hollywood film and military ceremonies. Psychic, social, aesthetic and political tensions were thus managed in Depression-era American literature in relation to communal modes of play. This study will appeal to scholars of twentieth-century American literature and culture.

Contents

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; Notes; Index.