Modernism is the literature of celebrity [electronic resource] / Jonathan Goldman.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-195) and index.

Introduction: modernism is the literature of celebrity: critical problem solving: modernism and popular culture; the field of modernism and the culture of celebrity; considering celebrity; why modernism is the literature of celebrity -- Oscar Wilde, fashioning fame: copying oneself; judging by appearances in Dorian Gray; the tragic commodity; deep thoughts: embodying the subject in De profundis -- James Joyce and modernist exceptionalism: styling the author; "peeping and prying into greenroom gossip of the day"; "famous son of a famous father": author, character, Holy Ghost; the dream of immateriality; E.T.: the extra-textual; the ghost of the author -- Gertrude Stein, everybody's celebrity: elite by association; unstable values; the trademark of time; name of constant value; a democracy of one -- Charlie Chaplin, author of modernist celebrity: happy endings; an author is born; sign of the times; the object of celebrity -- Rhys, the obscure: the literature of celebrity at the margins -- Epilogue. "Everybody who was anybody was there": after modernism, after celebrity, John Dos Passos.

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