
Modernism and the Materiality of Texts
Eyal Amiran(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 27. July 2016
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-107-13607-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
5 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-13607-6 (9781107136076)
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Person
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.
Content
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.