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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Nathanael West"”.
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'Shrike Laughed:' Celebrating Humor In Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts
<p>In this project, I interpret humor in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts as a positive affective style that signals a need felt by the late modernists. Critics of Nathanael West commonly characterize the author as pessimistic, nihilistic, and apocalyptic, noticing his tendency to describe …
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DADA / USA: connections between the Dada movement and eight American fiction writers
… Vail, John Dos Passos, E. E. Cummings, and Nathanael West, and was affected by Gertrude Stein, are examined in chapters 4 to 11. DADÁ / EEUU: CONEXIONES ENTRE EL MOVIMIENTO DADAÍSTA Y OCHO NARRADORES NORTEAMERICANOS El propósito de esta tesis es investigar, dentro del marco teórico de la …
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The Outward Turn: Personality, Blankness, and Allure in American Modernism
… Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Gertrude Stein, Nathanael West, and Langston Hughes invented ways of representing individuals not by stable inner qualities but by their fascinating--and, often, gendered and racialized--blankness. For these writers, this sense of personality was not only an …
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The media assemblage: the twentieth-century novel in dialogue with film, television, and new media
… One examines novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West written in the 1930s. Both novelists spent time working in Hollywood, hoping to make money writing for the rapidly growing film industry. West and Fitzgerald criticize Hollywood even though both were attracted to film and developed …