Multimedia Modernism: Literature and the Anglo-American Avant-garde
Cambridge University Press, 4/30/2009
EAN 9780521513456, ISBN10: 0521513456
Hardcover, 232 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Multimedia Modernism explores the complex effects of a new media environment on avant-garde literary production in the early twentieth century. During this period, the likes of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky wrote works which, in one way or another, attest to the immense effect that photography, cinematography, mechanical print technology and visual advertising had on the established arts. Re-reading modernism's technological origins through the lens of media theory, this innovative study proposes a serious new methodological approach to modernism in general. Examining a wide range of literature that includes Gertrude Stein's contributions to Camera Work, Louis Zukofsky's groundbreaking poem 'A' and Wyndham Lewis's celebrated Blast, this book embeds literary revolution within media evolution to show that literary criticism and media history have a lot to learn from each other.
1. Towards a media theory of modern poetics
2. Camera ready copy
3. Figure, image, thing
4. The Vorticist membrane
5. Zukofsky's cinema
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