Megan West(erby)

"The increasing number of critics working on the nonmodernist literature of the early twentieth century are hampered by the lack of appropriate terminology to describe their specialism. The period is referred to by literary critics as the “modernist,” while cultural critics concentrate on material such as music hall, Hollywood film, and mass-market magazines and novels. What, then, becomes of writing which cannot be easily accommodated to the paradigms of either high modernism or popular culture?"

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Faye Hammill, Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture Between the Wars (U of Texas P, 2007, p7)

(Source: nonmodernist)

15 January 2012 ·