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02384cam a2200409 a 4500 001 2A1DCE3C2B0C11DE82774608A8D7520A 005 200904162356.0 008 041123s2006 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2004027475 020 $a 9780820478326 (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 $a 0820478326 (hardcover : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)57134463 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d C#P $d MBB $d IWA $d SILO 050 00 $a PS374.M535 $b B66 2006 082 00 $a 813/.5209112 $2 22 100 1 $a Bombaci, Nancy, $d 1963- 245 1 $a Freaks in late modernist American culture : $b Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers / $c Nancy Bombaci. 260 $a New York : $b Peter Lang, $c c2006. 300 $a 175 p. ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Modern American literature, $x 1078-0521 ; $v v. 47 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-172) and index. 505 0 $a Degeneration, anti-semitism, and the enfreakment of modernism -- Nathanael West's aspiring freakish flaÌneurs -- "Well of course, I used to be absolutely gorgeous dear": the female interviewer as subject/object in Djuna Barnes' journalism -- Heredity, transvestism, and the limits of self-fashioning in Nightwood -- Horror, melodrama, and mutable masculine identity in Tod Browning's films -- Louis B. Mayer and the threat of mutable masculine identity -- "This thing I long for I know not what" : Carson McCullers and the melodrama of the domesticated freak -- Conclusion : deviance, defiance, and the problem of "weirdness". 600 10 $a West, Nathanael, $d 1903-1940 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Barnes, Djuna $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Browning, Tod, $d 1882-1962 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a McCullers, Carson, $d 1917-1967 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) $z United States. 650 0 $a Difference (Psychology) in literature. 650 0 $a Identity (Psychology) in literature. 830 0 $a Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ; $v v. 47. 856 41 $3 Table of contents $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004027475.html 939 $a 5615190 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20231004012538.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2A1DCE3C2B0C11DE82774608A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search