To Hurt the Pain: An Ethical Criticism of Nathanael West

Nathanael West is typically considered to be a “major minor” American writer of the late modernist period. Best known today for Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of the Locust (1939), West wrote four dark novellas that excoriated mainstream American culture of the 1930s. Earlier critics viewed...

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Main Author: Stiles, Stefanie
Language:en
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6928