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American superrealism :

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American superrealism :

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Nathanael West and the politics of representation in the 1930s /

Jonathan Veitch

Madison :

University of Wisconsin Press,

©1997

1 online resource (xx, 182 pages) :

illustrations

The Wisconsin project on American writers

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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American superrealism.

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West, Nathanael,1903-1940-- Criticism and interpretation

Capitalism and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century

Depressions in literature

Economics in literature

Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 20th century

Mimesis in literature

National characteristics, American, in literature

Politics and literature-- United States-- History-- 20th century

Surrealism (Literature)-- United States

LIT-- 004020

Veitch, Jonathan

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