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LEADER: 02083cam a2200349 a 4500
001 2004027475
003 DLC
005 20110526081610.0
008 041123s2006 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2004027475
020 $a0820478326 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPS374.M535$bB66 2006
082 00 $a813/.5209112$222
100 1 $aBombaci, Nancy,$d1963-
245 10 $aFreaks in late modernist American culture :$bNathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers /$cNancy Bombaci.
260 $aNew York :$bPeter Lang,$cc2006.
300 $a175 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aModern American literature,$x1078-0521 ;$vv. 47
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [161]-172) and index.
505 0 $aDegeneration, anti-semitism, and the enfreakment of modernism -- Nathanael West's aspiring freakish flâneurs -- "Well of course, I used to be absolutely gorgeous dear": the female interviewer as subject/object in Djuna Barnes' journalism -- Heredity, transvestism, and the limits of self-fashioning in Nightwood -- Horror, melodrama, and mutable masculine identity in Tod Browning's films -- Louis B. Mayer and the threat of mutable masculine identity -- "This thing I long for I know not what" : Carson McCullers and the melodrama of the domesticated freak -- Conclusion : deviance, defiance, and the problem of "weirdness".
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aModernism (Literature)$zUnited States.
600 10 $aWest, Nathanael,$d1903-1940$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aBarnes, Djuna$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aBrowning, Tod,$d1880-1962$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aMcCullers, Carson,$d1917-1967$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aDifference (Psychology) in literature.
650 0 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature.
830 0 $aModern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ;$vv. 47.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004027475.html