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Two apparently contradictory pairs of terms - depression & abundance, literature & mass culture - make up the framework of this study. Despite the painful experience of scarcity & poverty, one can detect the outlines of an image-mediated, consumer society, & a challenge to the demarcation between 'high' & 'popular' culture.Barnard, Rita is the author of 'Great Depression and the Culture of Abundance Kenneth Fearing, Nathanael West, and Mass Culture in the 1930s' with ISBN 9780521450348 and ISBN 0521450349.
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