Loos grew up in California in a small family that ran a nickelodeon. Emphasis on the material of language had characterized the main stream of American literary humor throughout the nineteenth century.) (In fact, although Loos works against the background of modernism and name-checks Conrad, there is an important sense in which her book is a reminder of how much high modernism borrowed from popular culture. And the dialect humor is close to what Joyce worked for in certain chapters of his earlier books. But Loos uses language in an interesting way her book is a prime example of modernist techniques seeping into popular use. The book has the interest of biographical color rather than any usefulness for explaining the Wake. When James Joyce was nearly blind and working on the first draft of Finnegans Wake, the book he permitted himself during his daily reading window was Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a best-selling satire by Anita Loos.
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