Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity

by Aaron Jaffe

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In this 2005 book, Aaron Jaffe investigates the relationship between two phenomena that arrived on the historical stage in the first decades of the twentieth century: modernist literature and celebrity culture. Jaffe systematically traces and theorises the deeper dependencies between these two influential forms of cultural value. He examines the paradox that modernist authors, while rejecting mass culture in favour of elite cultural forms, reflected...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0521843014

ISBN13:9780521843010

Release Date:April 2005

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:262 Pages

Weight:1.14 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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