Multimedia modernism: : literature and the Anglo-American avant-garde / Julian Murphet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murphet, Julian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature)--English-speaking countries.

Modernism (Literature).

Literature, Experimental.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

English-speaking countries.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--English-speaking countries.

Literature, Experimental--English-speaking countries--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

ix, 220 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Summary:

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 Gertude 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.

Contents:

Toward a media theory of modern poetics

Camera ready copy

Figure, image, thing

The Vorticist membrane

Zukofsky's cinema.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-216) and index.

ISBN:

9780521513456

0521513456

OCLC:

297147062