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The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance - Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and Mass Culture in the 1930s (Hardcover)
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The Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance - Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and Mass Culture in the 1930s (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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Two contradictory, or apparently contradictory, pairs of terms -
depression and abundance, and literature and mass culture - make up
the framework of this study in 1930s culture. Rita Barnard suggests
that despite the painful national experience of scarcity and
poverty, one can detect in the culture of the American thirties the
now familiar outlines of an image-mediated, consumer society. She
argues that the hierarchical opposition between 'high art' and
'mass culture' was powerfully contested in cultural productions of
the depression era: as book clubs, radio, popular exhibitions, star
conductors such as Toscanini and many other vehicles brought high
culture to millions of people. In the meantime, writers with
'serious' literary interests borrowed from the discourse of the
media in their writing. The central figures of this study emerge as
pre-eminent - and in some sense prophetic - figures: their poetry
and prose illuminate emergent cultural forces that have since
attained new stature in our post-modern world. Despite their sharp
and often prescient social critique, they are not to be mistaken
for elitists, they recognised at once the deceit and the promise of
our emergent culture of abundance.
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