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Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity de Jonathan Goldman

Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity: Literary Modernism

Autor Jonathan Goldman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mar 2011
Filled with insights into the works of Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Charlie Chaplin, Jean Rhys, and John Dos Passos, this is a provocative new reading of the relationship between modernist literature and the development of celebrity culture in the early twentieth century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780292723399
ISBN-10: 0292723393
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 10 b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 168 x 236 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: MU – University of Texas Press
Seria Literary Modernism

Notă biografică

Jonathan Goldman is Assistant Professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology's Manhattan campus. A scholar of literature's relationship to popular culture, he has made modernism and celebrity his particular field of expertise, coediting (with Aaron Jaffe) a volume of essays titled Modernist Star Maps: Celebrity, Modernity, Culture.

Cuprins

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity
    • Critical Problem Solving: Modernism and Popular Culture
    • The Field of Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity
    • Considering Celebrity
    • Why Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity
  • 1. Oscar Wilde, Fashioning Fame
    • Copying Oneself
    • Judging By Appearances in Dorian Gray
    • The Tragic Commodity
    • Deep Thoughts: Embodying the Subject in De Profundis
  • 2. James Joyce and Modernist Exceptionalism
    • Styling the Author
    • "Peeping and prying into greenroom gossip of the day"
    • "Famous Son of a Famous Father": Author, Character, Holy Ghost
    • The Dream of Immateriality
    • E.T.: The Extra-Textual
    • The Ghost of the Author
  • 3. Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Celebrity
    • Elite By Association
    • Unstable Values
    • The Trademark of Time
    • Name of Constant Value
    • A Democracy of One
  • 4. Charlie Chaplin, Author of Modernist Celebrity
    • Happy Endings
    • An Author Is Born
    • Sign of the Times
    • The Object of Celebrity
  • 5. Rhys, the Obscure: The Literature of Celebrity at the Margins
    • That Obscure Abject of Desire
    • Bildung in the Dark
    • The Hidden Rhys
    • Wide Sargasso City
    • Posthuman Beings
    • Celebrity on the Margins
  • Epilogue. "Everybody who was anybody was there": After Modernism, After Celebrity, John Dos Passos
    • The Camera, I
    • The In Crowd
    • Stein and They, Hemingway
    • U.S.A. and Hem
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Recenzii

Goldman's thesis is ably pursued and very useful. He situates 'celebrity' as the 'missing link' between high and low culture in modernism, and I think he has a point.