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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Robin Blyn |
ISBN: | 9780816678167 0816678162 9780816678174 0816678170 |
OCLC Number: | 900476406 |
Description: | xxxvii, 281 sider : illustrations |
Contents: | Indhold: A curious education : Mark Twain's corporate persons ; Between silence and sound : the Lon Chaney sensation ; Decadence in the age of fascism : Djuna Barnes's freak dandies ; Dada in Hollywood : Nathanael West's human machines : The biology of revolution : mapping mutation with Diane Arbus |
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"Linking the freak show to the avant-garde, Robin Blyn offers a fresh look at authors and artist like Mark Twain, Lon Chaney, Djuna Barnes, Nathanael West, Diane Arbus, and Matthew Barney. This book is a welcome contribution to scholarship on the freak show." -Rachel Adams, Columbia University Read more...
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