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1 online resource (xi, 314 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
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PDF |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-304) and index. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
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Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Great Britain. |
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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United States. |
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Modernism (Art) -- Great Britain.
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Modernism (Art) |
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Modernism (Art) -- United States.
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Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Art and literature. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Art and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Formalism (Literary analysis) -- History.
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Formalism (Literary analysis) |
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Formalism (Art) -- History.
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Formalism (Art) |
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Literary form -- History -- 20th century.
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Literary form. |
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lewis, Cara L., 1983- Dynamic form. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020 9781501749179 (DLC) 2019040743 (OCoLC)1119743797 |
| ISBN |
9781501749186 electronic book |
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1501749196 electronic book |
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9781501749193 electronic book |
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1501749188 electronic book |
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9781501749179 hardcover |
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150174917X hardcover |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9781501749193 |
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