Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity /
Goldman, Jonathan
Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity / Jonathan Goldman. - 1 online resource (216 p.) - Literary Modernism .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity -- Chapter 1 . Oscar Wilde, Fashioning Fame -- Chapter 2. James Joyce and Modernist Exceptionalism -- Chapter 3. Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Celebrity -- Chapter 4. Charlie Chaplin, Author of Modernist Celebrity -- Chapter 5. 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 -- Works Cited -- Index
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The phenomenon of celebrity burst upon the world scene about a century ago, as movies and modern media brought exceptional, larger-than-life personalities before the masses. During the same era, modernist authors were creating works that defined high culture in our society and set aesthetics apart from the middle- and low-brow culture in which celebrity supposedly resides. To challenge this ingrained dichotomy between modernism and celebrity, Jonathan Goldman offers a provocative new reading of early twentieth-century culture and the formal experiments that constitute modernist literature's unmistakable legacy. He argues that the literary innovations of the modernists are indeed best understood as a participant in the popular phenomenon of celebrity. Presenting a persuasive argument as well as a chronicle of modernism's and celebrity's shared history, Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity begins by unraveling the uncanny syncretism between Oscar Wilde's writings and his public life. Goldman explains that Wilde, in shaping his instantly identifiable public image, provided a model for both literary and celebrity cultures in the decades that followed. In subsequent chapters, Goldman traces this lineage through two luminaries of the modernist canon, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, before turning to the cinema of mega-star Charlie Chaplin. He investigates how celebrity and modernism intertwine in the work of two less obvious modernist subjects, Jean Rhys and John Dos Passos. Turning previous criticism on its head, Goldman demonstrates that the authorial self-fashioning particular to modernism and generated by modernist technique helps create celebrity as we now know it.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292734883
10.7560/723399 doi
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Celebrities--History--20th century.
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Fame--History--20th century.
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Popular culture--History--20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
820.900912
Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity / Jonathan Goldman. - 1 online resource (216 p.) - Literary Modernism .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity -- Chapter 1 . Oscar Wilde, Fashioning Fame -- Chapter 2. James Joyce and Modernist Exceptionalism -- Chapter 3. Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Celebrity -- Chapter 4. Charlie Chaplin, Author of Modernist Celebrity -- Chapter 5. 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 -- Works Cited -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
The phenomenon of celebrity burst upon the world scene about a century ago, as movies and modern media brought exceptional, larger-than-life personalities before the masses. During the same era, modernist authors were creating works that defined high culture in our society and set aesthetics apart from the middle- and low-brow culture in which celebrity supposedly resides. To challenge this ingrained dichotomy between modernism and celebrity, Jonathan Goldman offers a provocative new reading of early twentieth-century culture and the formal experiments that constitute modernist literature's unmistakable legacy. He argues that the literary innovations of the modernists are indeed best understood as a participant in the popular phenomenon of celebrity. Presenting a persuasive argument as well as a chronicle of modernism's and celebrity's shared history, Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity begins by unraveling the uncanny syncretism between Oscar Wilde's writings and his public life. Goldman explains that Wilde, in shaping his instantly identifiable public image, provided a model for both literary and celebrity cultures in the decades that followed. In subsequent chapters, Goldman traces this lineage through two luminaries of the modernist canon, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, before turning to the cinema of mega-star Charlie Chaplin. He investigates how celebrity and modernism intertwine in the work of two less obvious modernist subjects, Jean Rhys and John Dos Passos. Turning previous criticism on its head, Goldman demonstrates that the authorial self-fashioning particular to modernism and generated by modernist technique helps create celebrity as we now know it.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780292734883
10.7560/723399 doi
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Celebrities--History--20th century.
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Fame--History--20th century.
Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Popular culture--History--20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
820.900912