New PDF release: Slapstick Modernism: Chaplin to Kerouac to Iggy Pop

By William Solomon

Slapstick comedy landed like a pie within the face of twentieth-century tradition. Pratfalls and nyuk-nyuks percolated along literary modernism during the Twenties and Thirties sooner than slapstick discovered explosive expression in postwar literature, experimental movie, and well known tune. William Solomon charts the origins and evolution of what he calls slapstick modernism --a merging of inventive experimentation with the socially disruptive lunacy made through the likes of Charlie Chaplin. Romping via texts, movies, and conception, Solomon embarks on a harum-scarum highbrow odyssey from excessive modernism to the past due modernism of the Beats and Burroughs earlier than a head-on crash into the uncooked strength of punk rock. all through, he indicates the hyperlinks among the experimental writers and silent display performers of the early century, and explores the powerful cultural venture that drew concept from anarchical comedy after global conflict Two.

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