Talk:The Day of the Locust

message: Who wrote this article? It's extremely biased and interpretative and at times in its (mis)interpretation seems to be undervaluing or simply bashing the novel. Calling all the character stereotypes is true up to a point, but the article goes too far in trying to include Homer Simpson, a character altogether outside the scheme, as a stereotype. The article misses completely the religious/mystic/apocalyptic/revelatory elements in the novel- that's what the entire book is actually about. It isn't a satire on Hollywood. The very title, The Day of the Locust, gives the book a biblical connection, and considering West's preoccupations it's fair to say this is the book's proper context. It's about revelations and apocalypse. Simpson is the Christ figure throughout and unsurprisingly he inadvertently starts the riot/apocalypse. West can't buy a break; considering how shabbily he's been treated in life and after death, how overlooked, how misunderstood, how undervalued, one would hope at least this all-important site would give him his due and proper. But whatever. Really, Americans don't deserve prophets.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.115.17.132 (talk) 21:57, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussions about edits to this article

message: This is my preliminary bibliography for working on this article. This is not the same as the current article reference list. I look forward to any additional recommendations.
# Alter, Jonathan. The Defining Moment: FDR’s Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006.
# Blyn, Robin. “Imitating the Siren: West’s The Day of the Locust and the Subject of Sound.” Literature-Film Quarterly 32, no. 1 (2004): 51-59.
# Bordo, Michael D., Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White, ed. The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century, Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998.
# Doss, Erika. “Artists in Hollywood: Thomas Hart Benton and Nathaniel West Picture America’s Dream Dump.” Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 7, no. 1 (2011): 
# Edington, K. “The Hollywood Novel: American Dream, Apocalyptic Vision.” Literature-Film Quarterly 23, no. 1 (1995): 63-67.
# Gano, Geneva M. “Nationalist Ideologies and New Deal Regionalism in The Day of the Locust.” MFS 55, no. 1 (2009): 42-67.
# Hemingway, Andrew. Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2002.
# Lukes, H. N. “Portrait of the Artist as Social Symptom: Viral Affect and Mass Culture in The Day of the Locust.” WSQ 40, no. 1 & 2 (2012): 187-200.
# Meyers, Jeffrey. “The paintings in The Day of the Locust.” ANQ 22, no. 1 (2009): 50-55.
# Rivkin, Julie and Michael Ryan, ed., Literary Theory: An Anthology, 2d ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
# Roberts, Matthew. “Bonfire of the Avante-Garde: Cultural Rage and Readerly Complicity in The Day of the Locust.” MFS 42, no. 1 (1996):61-90.
# Rogers, Martin. “Monstrous Modernism and The Day of the Locust.” The Journal of Popular Culture 44, no. 2 (2011): 367-384.
# Shlaes, Amity. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, New York: Harper Collins, 2007.
# Springer, John. “’This is a riot you’re in’: Hollywood and American Mass Culture in Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust.” Literature-Film Quarterly 24, no. 4 (1999): 439-444. 
# West, Nathanael. The Day of the Locust, Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer, 1939.
 
Other references:
# Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels. Literature and Art, New York: International Publishers, 1947.
# Bold, Christine. Writers, Plumbers, and Anarchists: The WPA Writer’s Project in Massachusetts, Amherst, MA: U of Mass P, 2006.
# Levitan, Sar A., and Gregory K. Wurzburg. Evaluating Social Programs: An Uncertain Art. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute, 1979.
# Groys, Boris. Art Power, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.
# Adams, Laurie Schneider. Art and Psychoanalysis, New York: Harper Collins, 1993.
# Klepper, Martin and Joseph C. Schöpp. Transatlantic Modernism, Germany: Universitätsverlag C. Winter Heidelberg, 2001. 
Usfmicah (talk) 22:40, 26 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Day of the Locust reference list 2015

message: I'm surprised nobody has touched on the similarities
:If the editor who wrote the above thinks the movie Mulholland Drive was derived from the novel Day of the Locust and has appropriate sources, he can edit the Mulholland Drive article to mention this deriviation, but nothing about Mulholland Drive belongs in the Day of the Locust article. TheScotch (talk) 06:47, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  References in Mulholland Drive 

message: The character Homer Simpson in this novel has no connection to the character of the same name in the Matt Groenig animated television series, so I'm going to remove that link.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Revanneosl (talk • contribs) 16:30, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coincidence of character names 

message: Hi User:Usfmicah, per read WP:LEAD which states "Apart from trivial basic facts, significant information should not appear in the lead if it is not covered in the remainder of the article." I see you're still working on the article. I usually write the lead last since it is meant to be an overview of what's contained in the rest of the article. -- GreenC 21:11, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead