Modernism and the Materiality of Texts
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2016
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-13607-6 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-13607-6 (ISBN)
Modernism and the Materiality of Texts argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises. This book provides new readings of key modernists including Stein, Woolf, and Kipling, as well as popular figures like Wodehouse and J. M. Barrie.
Modernism and the Materiality of Texts argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises. Physical features of texts that interest modernist writers, such as sound patterns and anagrams, cannot be dissociated from abstraction or made a refuge from social crisis; instead, they reflect colonial and racial anxieties of the period. Rudyard Kipling's fear that he is indistinguishable from empire subjects, J. M. Barrie's object-relations theater of infantile separation, and Virginia Woolf's dismembered anagram self are performed by the physical text and produce a new understanding of textuality. In readings that also include diverse works by Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, P. G. Wodehouse and Conan Doyle, J. M. Barrie, George Herriman, and Sigmund Freud, this study produces a new reading of modernism's psychological text and of literary constructions of materiality in the period.
Modernism and the Materiality of Texts argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises. Physical features of texts that interest modernist writers, such as sound patterns and anagrams, cannot be dissociated from abstraction or made a refuge from social crisis; instead, they reflect colonial and racial anxieties of the period. Rudyard Kipling's fear that he is indistinguishable from empire subjects, J. M. Barrie's object-relations theater of infantile separation, and Virginia Woolf's dismembered anagram self are performed by the physical text and produce a new understanding of textuality. In readings that also include diverse works by Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, P. G. Wodehouse and Conan Doyle, J. M. Barrie, George Herriman, and Sigmund Freud, this study produces a new reading of modernism's psychological text and of literary constructions of materiality in the period.
Eyal Amiran is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the Editor of the interdisciplinary journal Postmodern Culture.
1. Nonsense and motivation; 2. VSW - anagram body; 3. The erasure of Alice Toklas and Gertrude Stein; 4. Barrie's object relations; 5. Late English Empire nonsense; 6. Herriman's black sentence; 7. Afterword - indifference in Freud.
Erscheinungsdatum | 04.08.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 5 Halftones, black and white |
Verlagsort | Cambridge |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 400 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-107-13607-5 / 1107136075 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-107-13607-6 / 9781107136076 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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