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Book SynopsisUnderstanding the artistic bounty of modernist tensions over everyday life
Trade Review“In all my years of reading, only once before have I had this kind of positive immediate reaction. I kept wondering, ‘How can Suárez possibly know so much, keep all his material straight, write about it with such flair, dig up so many corpses, and say something new about The Waste Land that makes it a less odious poem?’ A book of encyclopedic proportions,
Pop Modernism is brilliant, and will set a new path for Modernist Studies.”--Paula Rabinowitz, author of
Black & White & Noir: America’s Pulp ModernismTable of Contentsix Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Modernism, Popular Practice, Noise
Noise Abatement
19 1. Reading Modernity: Vachel Lindsay's Theory of FIlm
50 2. Reading the Modern City: Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler's
Manhatta 80 3. John Dos Passos's USA, the Popular Media, and Left Documentary Film in the 1930s
The Rustle of the Quotidian
119 4. The Art of Noise: The Gramophone, T. S. Eliot's
The Waste Land, and the Modernist Discourse Network
141 5. Joseph Cornell and the Secret Life of Things
The Murmur of Otherness
179 6. Queer Modernism: Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler's
The Young and Evil 208 7. Walking with Zombies: Haitian Folklore and Modernist Ethnography in Zora Neale Hurston's
Tell My Horse 237 8. Inner-City Surrealism: James Agee, Janice Loeb, and Helen Levitt's
In the Street 273 Notes
315 Index
