7. Modernist Seductions: Materializing Mass Culture in Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Introduction: Modernism and the Body as Afterimage 1
5. PART I: THE EYE IN THE TEXT
6. 2. The Eye's Mind: Self-Detection in James's The Sacred Fount and Nabokov's The Eye 47
7. 3. Two Mirrors Facing: Freud, Blanchot, and the Logic of Invisibility 79
8. PART II: THE BODY VISIBLE IN THE LENS OF AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE
9. 4. From "Spyglass" to "Horizon": Tracking the Anthropological Gaze in Zora Neale Hurston 111
10. 5. One-Eyed Jacks and Three-Eyed Monsters: Visualizing Embodiment in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man 145
11. PART III: AUDIENCE AND SPECTACLE
12. 6. Spectacles of Violence, Stages of Art: Walter Benjamin and Virginia Woolf's Dialectic 203
13. 7. Modernist Seductions: Materializing Mass Culture in Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust 243
14. Postscript: From "Our Glass Lake" to "Hourglass Lake": Photo/graphic Memory in Nabokov's Lolita 264
15. Bibliography 281
16. Index 303