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Susan HegemanPublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press1999Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS228.M63 H44 1999 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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She shows how, during this period, the term “culture” changed from being a technical term associated primarily with anthropology into a term of popular usage. She also shows the connections between this new view of “culture” and the artistic work of the period by, among others, Sherwood Anderson, Jean Toomer, Thomas Hart Benton, Nathanael West, and James Agee and depicts in a new way the richness and complexity of the modernist milieu in the United States. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- American literature — 20th century — History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature) — United States
- Literature and anthropology — United States — History — 20th century
- Culture — Social aspects — United States — History — 20th century
- National characteristics, American, in literature
- Modernism (Aesthetics) — United States
- Arts, Modern — 20th century
- Arts, American
- United States — Civilization — 20th century
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Contents
- Introduction: The Domestication of Culture
- 1. Modernism, Anthropology, Culture
- 2. Dry Salvages: Spatiality, Nationalism, and the Invention of an "Anthropological" Culture
- 3. The National Genius: Van Wyck Brooks, Edward Sapir, and the Problem of the Individual
- 4. Terrains of Culture: Ruth Benedict, Waldo Frank, and the Spatialization of the Culture Concept
- 5. The Culture of the Middle: Class, Taste, and Region in the 1930s Politics of Art
- 6. "Beyond Relativity": James Agee and Others, Toward the Cold War
- 7. On Getting Rid of Culture: An Inconclusive Conclusion
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- 0691001340
- 0691001332
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