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Author Brown, Judith (Judith Christine)

Title Glamour in six dimensions : modernism and the radiance of form / Judith Brown
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 199 pages) : illustrations
Contents Perception : Chanel no. 5, Wallace Stevens, the sublime -- Violence : Scott Fitzgerald, fascination, Katherine Mansfield -- Photography : Virginia Woolf, grammar, desire -- Celebrity : 1910, the extinction of personality, Greta Garbo -- Primitivism : Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen, Josephine Baker -- Cellophane : Florine Stettheimer, Gertrude Stein, blankness
Summary In Glamour in Six Dimensions Judith Brown looks at the historical and aesthetic roots of glamour in the early decades of the twentieth century, arguing that glamour is the defining aesthetic of modernism. In the clean lines of modernism she finds the ideal conditions for glamour-blankness, polish, impenetrability, and the suspicion of emptiness behind it all. Brown focuses on several cultural products that she argues helped to shape glamour's meanings: the most significant perfume of the twentieth century, Chanel No. 5; the idea of the Jazz Age and its ubiquitous cigarette; the celebrity photograph; the staging of primitivism; and the invention of a shimmering plastic called cellophane. Alongside these artifacts, she takes up the development, refinement, and analysis of glamour in Anglo-American poetry, film, fiction, and drama of the period. Glamour in 6 Dimensions thus asks its reader to see the proximity between the vernacular and elite cultures of modernism, and particularly how glamour was animated by artists working at the crossroads of the mundane and the extraordinary: Wallace Stevens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Josephine Baker, D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, and others."--Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-193) and index
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SUBJECT Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Glamour in literature.
Modernism (Literature) -- United States
Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
Glamour -- Social aspects -- United States
Glamour -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Social aspects -- United States
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Modern -- 20th Century .
American literature
English literature
Glamour in literature
Modernism (Literature)
Glamour
Kultur
Moderne
Bellettrie.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Schoonheidsideaal.
Het sublieme.
Esthetica.
Sociale aspecten.
Litteraturvetenskap -- modernismen -- estetik -- Förenta staterna -- Storbritannien -- sekelskiftet 1900.
Film.
Kultur.
Kvinnobilden.
Amerikansk litteratur -- historia -- 1900-talet.
Engelsk litteratur -- historia -- 1900-talet.
Modernism (litteratur) -- Förenta Staterna.
Modernism (litteratur) -- Storbritannien.
Modernism -- sociala aspekter -- Förenta Staterna.
Modernism -- sociala aspekter -- Storbritannien.
Modernism.
Litteratur.
Great Britain
United States
Großbritannien
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501731242
1501731246