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Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity /
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Literary modernism series.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.