| Description |
175 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Modern American literature, 1078-0521 ; v. 47 |
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Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 47.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-172) and index. |
| Contents |
Degeneration, anti-semitism, and the enfreakment of modernism -- Nathanael West's aspiring freakish flâneurs -- "Well of course, I used to be absolutely gorgeous dear": the female interviewer as subject/object in Djuna Barnes' journalism -- Heredity, transvestism, and the limits of self-fashioning in Nightwood -- Horror, melodrama, and mutable masculine identity in Tod Browning's films -- Louis B. Mayer and the threat of mutable masculine identity -- "This thing I long for I know not what" : Carson McCullers and the melodrama of the domesticated freak -- Conclusion : deviance, defiance, and the problem of "weirdness". |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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West, Nathanael, 1903-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Barnes, Djuna -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Browning, Tod, 1880-1962 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Difference (Psychology) in literature.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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| ISBN |
0820478326 hardcover alkaline paper |
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