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Modernism is the literature of celebrity
- Title
- Modernism is the literature of celebrity / Jonathan Goldman.
- Author
- Goldman, Jonathan (Jonathan E.)
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- x, 204 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Literary modernism series
- Uniform Title
- Literary modernism series.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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 -- Oscar Wilde, fashioning fame: copying oneself; judging by appearances in Dorian Gray; the tragic commodity; deep thoughts: embodying the subject in De profundis -- 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 -- Gertrude Stein, everybody's celebrity: elite by association; unstable values; the trademark of time; name of constant value; a democracy of one -- Charlie Chaplin, author of modernist celebrity: happy endings; an author is born; sign of the times; the object of celebrity -- Rhys, the obscure: the literature of celebrity at the margins -- Epilogue. "Everybody who was anybody was there": after modernism, after celebrity, John Dos Passos.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-1089
- ISBN
- 9780292723399 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0292723393 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010035091
- OCLC
- YBP 2010035091
- Author
- Goldman, Jonathan (Jonathan E.)
- Title
- Modernism is the literature of celebrity / Jonathan Goldman.
- Imprint
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Series
- Literary modernism seriesLiterary modernism series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-1089