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Vision's Immanence : Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination /

"To what extent was William Faulkner's deeply ambivalent relationship to - and involvement with - American popular culture reflected in his modernist or "art" fiction? Peter Lurie finds convincing evidence that Faulkner was keenly aware of commercial culture and adapted its formu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lurie, Peter, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Adorno's modernism and the historicity of popular culture
  • "Some quality of delicate paradox": sanctuary's generative conflict of high and low
  • "Get me a nigger": mystery, surveillance, and Joe Christmas's spectral identity
  • "Some trashy myth of reality's escape": romance, history, and film viewing in Absalom, Absalom!
  • Screening readerly pleasures: modernism, melodrama, and mass markets in If I forget thee, Jerusalem
  • Modernism, jail cells, and the senses.