Modernist Star Maps (eBook, PDF)

Celebrity, Modernity, Culture
Redaktion: Jaffe, Aaron; Goldman, Jonathan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together Canadian, American, and British scholars, this volume explores the relationship between modernism and modern celebrity culture. In support of the collection's overriding thesis that modern celebrity and modernism are mutually determining phenomena, the contributors take on a range of transatlantic canonical and noncanonical figures, from the expected (Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald) to the surprising (Elvis and Hitler). Illuminating case studies are balanced by the volume's attentiveness to broader issues related to modernist aesthetics, as the contributors consider celebrity in relationship to identity, commodification, print culture, personality, visual cultures, and theatricality. As the first book to read modernism and celebrity in the context of the crises of individual agency occasioned by the emergence of mass-mediated culture, Modernist Star Maps argues that the relationship between modernism and the popular is unthinkable without celebrity. Moreover, celebrity's strange evolution during the twentieth century is unimaginable without the intercession of modernism's system of cultural value. This innovative collection opens new avenues for understanding celebrity not only for modernist scholars but for critical theorists and cultural studies scholars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351916882
• Artikelnr.: 49355756

Autorenporträt

Aaron Jaffe is Frances Cushing Ervin Professor of English, Florida State University, USA Jonathan Goldman is Professor of English, New York Institute of Technology, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Aaron Jaffe and Jonathan Goldman; Part 1 Celebrity Modernisms: Adolescent Dorian Gray: Oscar Wilde's proto-picture of modernist celebrity
Lois Cucullu; Orlando Pimpernel
Aaron Jaffe; Imposture in The Great Gatsby
Allan Hepburn; There has been an inward change: in search of Eric Walrond
James C. Davis; Erskine Caldwell: modernist manqué
Loren Glass; Gertrude Stein's currency
Deborah M. Mix. Part 2 Modernist Celebrities/Modernist Vernaculars: Garbo's glamour
Judith Brown; In good company: modernism
celebrity
and sophistication in Vanity Fair
Faye Hammill; Reaching for the stars: Jean de Tinan's 'Essay on Cléo de Mérode Considered as Popular Symbol'
Michael D. Garval; Leni's Hitler/Hitler's Leni
Annalisa Zox-Weaver; Four Elvises
Edward P. Comentale. Part 3 Stellar Afterimages: Modernism is the age of Chaplin
Jonathan Goldman; On retrofitting: Samuel Beckett
tourist attraction
Stephen Watt; Defiling celebrity
Steven Connor; Afterword
Nancy Armstrong; Works cited; Index.