'Lousy with pure/reeking with stark': Nathanael West, William Carlos Williams, and the textualization of the 'Real.'
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William Carlos Williams's magazine, Contact, revived in 1931, advocated a literature in contact with the Real. However, the attempts of the magazine were a failure, except for Nathanael West, who could convert the idea of contact into a mode of apprehending an elusive social reality. West took up the elusiveness of genuine contact as his subject. However, the magazine failed to establish a nuanced contact with the Real, and eventually closed down.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 1996
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Reading Saint Flannery: modernism, sexuality, and the culture of psychoanalysis
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The author discusses the work of Flannery O'Connor from a psychoanalytical viewpoint. O'Conner's attitudes toward sex and religion are examined, along with her reaction to the popular culture of the day and her apparent failure to acknowledge the psychological aspects of her work.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 1999
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Mass cultural populism and the Hollywood novel: the case of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust
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Nathanael West's 'The Day of the Locust' is used as an example of the prototypical modern Hollywood novel. The author argues that the novel's cynical characters knowingly participate in and see through the mass culture surrounding them.
Publication Name: Prospects
Subject: Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
ISSN: 0361-2333
Year: 1999
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