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The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance: Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and Mass Culture in the 1930s - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Barnard, Rita (University of Pennsylvania)
The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance: Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and Mass Culture in the 1930s - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Barnard, Rita (University of Pennsylvania)
Examines the response of American leftist writers from the 1930s to the rise of mass culture, and to the continued propagation of the values of consumerism during the Depression. It traces in the work of Kenneth Fearing and Nathaniel West certain theoretical positions associated with the Frankfurt school (especially Walter Benjamin) and with contemporary theorists of postmodernism.
284 pages, 2 b/w illus.
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | January 27, 1995 |
ISBN13 | 9780521450348 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 284 |
Dimensions | 236 × 159 × 25 mm · 574 g |