Style, December 22nd, 2001
The collapse of the frontier between high and low culture was underway well before World War II. as Hart Crane's affirmation in "National Winter Garden" of burlesque as a redemptive force and Dos Passos's critical appeal to roller-coaster riding as an analogy for aesthetic innovation demonstrate. Henry Miller's Depression-era autobiographies, in particular the collection of short pieces entitled Black Spring, offers a superb point of access to the politicized dimensions of the exchange between literature and popular amusement in the 1930s. Modeling his aesthetic on the sensory thrills generate...
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