Mass Cultural Populism and the Hollywood Novel: The Case of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust
| Autor: | Chip Rhodes |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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| Zdroj: | Prospects. 24:589-604 |
| ISSN: | 1471-6399 0361-2333 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0361233300000491 |
| Popis: | The short history of the Hollywood novel provides a useful index of the ways that 20th-century U.S. literature has imagined the relation of sign systems to the external reality with which they would coincide. Very early Hollywood novels like Harry Leon Wilson's Merton of the Movies (1922) found their critiques of the nascent film industry on its fictiveness and conventionality, indicting Hollywood for the falsification of reality. Literature in general and the Hollywood novel in particular would serve, by implication, to set the record straight. As modernism in its many permutations supplanted realism, however, these straightforward epistemological distinctions became increasingly blurry. Informed by the recognition of the materiality of language, modernist fiction would have a lot harder time leveling its critiques. |
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