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Hieroglyphic modernisms : writing and new media in the twentieth century / Jesse Schotter.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schotter, Jesse, author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.
- Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Hieroglyphics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 264 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- 'Hieroglyphic Modernisms' explores this conjunction of hieroglyphs and modernist fiction and film, revealing how the challenge of new media spurred a fertile interplay among practitioners of old and new media forms.
- Contents:
- Intro
- HIEROGLYPHIC MODERNISMS
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION: A HIEROGLYPHIC CIVILISATION
- Part I
- 1 MISREADING EGYPT
- 2 THE HIEROGLYPHICS OF CHARACTER
- 3 SOUND ENCLOSURES
- Part II
- 4 THE 'ESSENCE' OF EGYPT
- 5 SOLVING THE PROBLEM OF BABEL
- 6 MATRICES AND METAVERSES
- CODA: THE ROSETTA STONE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- index.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781474424790
- 1474424791
- 9781474424783
- 1474424783
- 9781474445009
- 1474445004
- OCLC:
- 1065537423
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