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Sensational modernism : experimental fiction and photography in thirties America /

Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, Sensational Modernism uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind and fiction by writers such a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Entin, Joseph B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2007.
Colección:Cultural studies of the United States.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Scrutiny, sentiment, sensation : American modernism and the bodies of the dispossessed
  • Sensational contact : William Carlos Williams's short fiction and the bodies of new immigrants
  • Modernist documentary : Aaron Siskind's Harlem document
  • A piece of the body torn out by the roots : James Agee, Tillie Olsen, William Faulkner, and the contingencies of working-class representation
  • Monstrous modernism : laboring bodies, wounded workers, and narrative heterogeneity in Pietro di Donato's Christ in concrete
  • No man's land : Richard Wright, stereotype, and the racial politics of sensational modernism.