insolent popular culture in early twentieth-century Paris /
Robin Walz
xii, 206 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-206) and index
The Baedeker of hives: the opera passageway and Aragon's Le paysan de Paris -- The lament of fantômas: the popular novel as modern mythology -- Murder, mirth, and misogyny: the dark humor of Henri Désiré Landru, the bluebeard of Gambais -- Is suicide a solution? Surrealist questions and fait-divers responses -- On the popular dynamism of mass culture
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"Pulp Surrealism weaves an interpretative history of the intersection between mass print culture and surrealism, reevaluating both our understanding of mass culture in early twentieth-century Paris and the revolutionary aims of the surrealist movement." "Walz's exploration of mass print culture as one of the cultural milieus from which surrealism emerged ultimately calls into question assumptions about the avant-garde origins of modernism itself."--Jacket
French literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism
Popular culture-- France-- Paris-- History-- 20th century