Dandyism : forming fiction from modernism to the present / Len Gutkin.

By:

Gutkin, Len, 1985- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813943916

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PS374 .D363 2020

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Contents:

PART1. Fine and dandy: Ernest Hemingway's androgynous connoisseurship -- Raymond Chandler's dandified dick -- PART2. Decadent dandies -- William S. Burroughs's modernist genere decadence -- Djuna Bares's cross-gendered conceits -- PART3. Extremes and end-times -- The psychopath dandy: a survey -- Coda: the dandy and the hipster after the apocalypse.

Subject: "This work traces the aesthetic of Victorian "dandies" from works such as Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray through the work of later twentieth-century American and British authors, including Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, William S. Burroughs, and Djuna Barnes, as well as in postmodern thrillers, providing a revisionist history of the relationship between Victorian aesthetics and twentieth-century literature"--

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PS374.27 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1138670679

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: the dandy in long modernism -- PART1. Fine and dandy: Ernest Hemingway's androgynous connoisseurship -- Raymond Chandler's dandified dick -- PART2. Decadent dandies -- William S. Burroughs's modernist genere decadence -- Djuna Bares's cross-gendered conceits -- PART3. Extremes and end-times -- The psychopath dandy: a survey -- Coda: the dandy and the hipster after the apocalypse.

"This work traces the aesthetic of Victorian "dandies" from works such as Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray through the work of later twentieth-century American and British authors, including Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, William S. Burroughs, and Djuna Barnes, as well as in postmodern thrillers, providing a revisionist history of the relationship between Victorian aesthetics and twentieth-century literature"--

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