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- catalog abstract ""A writer who simply panders to the public is seldom taken for an artist. An artist who cannot publish is seldom granted a career. This dilemma, the subject of Muse in the Machine, has been home to many authors of serious fiction since the eighteenth century. But it is especially pointed for American writers, since the United States never fostered a sustainable elite culture readership. Its writers have always been reliant on mass publicity's machinery to survive; and when they depict that machinery, they also depict that reliance and the desire to transcend its banal formulas. This book looks at artist tales from Henry James to don DeLillo's Mao II, but also engages more indirect expressions of this tension between Romantic individualism and commercial requirements in Nathanael West, Vladimir Nabokov, and Thomas Pynchon. It covers the twentieth century, but its focus is not another rehearsal of "media theory" or word versus image. Rather, it aims to show how various novels "about" publicity culture also enact their authors' own dramas: how they both need and try to critique the "machine". In subject as well as approach, this study questions the current impasse between those who say that the aesthetic aspires to its own pure realm, and those who insist that it partakes of everyday practicality. Both sides are right; this book examines the consequences of that reality."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13321963.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""A writer who simply panders to the public is seldom taken for an artist. An artist who cannot publish is seldom granted a career. This dilemma, the subject of Muse in the Machine, has been home to many authors of serious fiction since the eighteenth century. But it is especially pointed for American writers, since the United States never fostered a sustainable elite culture readership. Its writers have always been reliant on mass publicity's machinery to survive; and when they depict that machinery, they also depict that reliance and the desire to transcend its banal formulas. This book looks at artist tales from Henry James to don DeLillo's Mao II, but also engages more indirect expressions of this tension between Romantic individualism and commercial requirements in Nathanael West, Vladimir Nabokov, and Thomas Pynchon. It covers the twentieth century, but its focus is not another rehearsal of "media theory" or word versus image. Rather, it aims to show how various novels "about" publicity culture also enact their authors' own dramas: how they both need and try to critique the "machine". In subject as well as approach, this study questions the current impasse between those who say that the aesthetic aspires to its own pure realm, and those who insist that it partakes of everyday practicality. Both sides are right; this book examines the consequences of that reality."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226) and index.".
- catalog description "Theoretical and historical prologue -- Ghosts and muses: Henry James -- Machine age and beyond: from West to DeLillo -- Letters and spirit in Miss Lonelyhearts -- Promise and prophecy: the artist's vision in The day of the locust -- Quilty the guilty: scapegoating mass culture in Lolita -- The American way and its double in Lot 49 -- From tombstone to tabloid: authority figured in White noise -- Mao II: a portrait of the artist in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Concluding unsystematic speculation: within the crisis of no crisis.".
- catalog extent "vii, 232 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Muse in the machine.".
- catalog identifier "0814209629 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0814290280 (cd-rom)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Muse in the machine.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbus : Ohio State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Muse in the machine.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.509 22".
- catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Authors and publishers United States History.".
- catalog subject "Authors and readers United States History.".
- catalog subject "Fiction Marketing History.".
- catalog subject "Fiction Marketing United States History.".
- catalog subject "Literature publishing United States History.".
- catalog subject "Mass media United States History.".
- catalog subject "Mass media in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS374.M38 C66 2004".
- catalog tableOfContents "Theoretical and historical prologue -- Ghosts and muses: Henry James -- Machine age and beyond: from West to DeLillo -- Letters and spirit in Miss Lonelyhearts -- Promise and prophecy: the artist's vision in The day of the locust -- Quilty the guilty: scapegoating mass culture in Lolita -- The American way and its double in Lot 49 -- From tombstone to tabloid: authority figured in White noise -- Mao II: a portrait of the artist in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Concluding unsystematic speculation: within the crisis of no crisis.".
- catalog title "Muse in the machine : American fiction and mass publicity / Mark Conroy.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".