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Dynamic Form How Intermediality Made Modernism

Title
Dynamic Form How Intermediality Made Modernism / Cara L. Lewis.
ISBN
1501749196
9781501749193
9781501749186
Publication
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020
Copyright Notice Date
©2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Summary
"Dynamic Form offers a new conceptual and historical account of modernism through an emphasis on the intersecting domains of visual and narrative media. The project analyzes texts from the first five decades of the twentieth century alongside sculptures, paintings, photographs, and films in order to show how visuality and non-textual media inflect the shape and movement of modernist narratives. Presents a wide-ranging study of modernist inter-mediation that embraces references to fine-art objects and evocations of painterly genres, as well as visual motifs and modes of viewing and engaging with visual and plastic artworks. Chapters on works by Henry James, Mina Loy, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, and Evelyn Waugh demonstrate that literary modernism's imbrication with spheres of visuality not only permeates its experiments with form but also calls for a more capacious rethinking of the visual-verbal encounter"-- Author's WWW page.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2020 Complete
Project MUSE - 2020 Global Cultural Studies
Other formats
Print version: Lewis, Cara L., 1983- Dynamic form Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 11, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : reformulating modernism
Plastic form : Henry James's sculptural aesthetics and reading in the round
Mortal form : still life and Virginia Woolf's other elegiac shapes
Protean form : erotic abstraction and ardent futurity in the poetry of Mina Loy
Bad formalism : Evelyn Waugh's film fictions and the work of art in the age of cinemechanics
Surface forms : photography and Gertrude Stein's contact history of modernism
Epilogue : the consolations of form.
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