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Acknowledgements; Part I. Context: 1. Introduction: literature and massculture in the thirties; 2. Hard times, modern times; Part II. KennethFearing: 3. The politics of literary failure: fearing, mass culture and thecanon; 4. The undercover agent and the culture of the spectacle; 5. 'Zowiedid he live and Zowie did he die': mass culture and the fragmentation ofexperience; Part III. Nathaniel West: 6. 'A surfeit of shoddy': West and thespectacle of culture; 7. 'When you wish upon a star': fantasy, experience andmass culture; 8. The storyteller, the novelist and the advice columnist;Epilogue: 'happy ending'; Notes; Index.