Modernism is the literature of celebrity / Jonathan Goldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldman, Jonathan (Jonathan E.)

Series:

Literary modernism series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Fame.

History.

Celebrities.

United States.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.

Great Britain.

Celebrities--History--20th century.

Fame--History--20th century.

Popular culture--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

x, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2011.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780292723399

0292723393

OCLC:

658200628