The fact of fiction : race, money, gender and nation in American modernism
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation considers the relationship between American modernist literary forms and what I call the "fact of fiction." The "fact of fiction" refers to the sense, increasing in the modernist era, that the boundaries between real and made up things were more porous than previously supposed, meaning that facts were largely fictional, and fictions were often facts. This was particularly important for what I call "social fictions, " phenomena like race or money that are constructed, but have attained a degree of real-world facticity. As social fictions became apparent as fictions, they created artistic anxiety. I tie this to the modernist interest in self-aware experimentation as well as the complex relationship of modernism to politics. Chapters cover Langston Hughes's revolutionary use of jazz improvisation in response to the social fiction of race, Ezra Pound's reactionary use of imagism in response to Keynesian re-conceptions of money, Ernest Hemingway's refusal to accept the performative nature of gender even as his literary style reveals it, and Claude McKay's plotless revelry in the face of the breakdown of the nation.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Porter, Jack Douglas |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, English Department. |
| Primary advisor | Moya, Paula M. L |
| Thesis advisor | Moya, Paula M. L |
| Thesis advisor | Jones, Gavin |
| Thesis advisor | Rasberry, Vaughn |
| Advisor | Jones, Gavin |
| Advisor | Rasberry, Vaughn |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | J. D. Porter. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of English. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2017. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2017 by Jack Douglas Porter
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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