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The K-Effect : Romanization, Modernism, and the Timing and Spacing of Print Culture / Christopher GoGwilt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- GoGwilt, Christopher, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Literature).
- Printing--History.
- Printing.
- Transliteration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- Taking up the phenomenon of romanization, this book's comparative reading of Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Lu Xun, Franz Kafka, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer, proposes an important new way to assess the multi-lingual, multi-script coordinates of transnational modernism and modern print culture.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Conrad's "timely appearance in English
- The K-effect
- Conrad's "timely appearance in English
- The K-effectcirca 1911
- Overview of the Book
- 1. The English Case of Romanization: From Conrad's "blank space" to Joyce's "iSpace
- Defining Romanization: The Oxford English Dictionaryand Joseph Conrad,
- Conrad's Accusative Case:Lord Jim and Nostromo
- Joycean "iSpace"and the Conradian "blank space"
- 2. The Russian Face of Romanization: The K in Conrad and Kafka
- Language, Script, and Reform in the Russian Empire
- Under Western Eyes, A Personal Record, and "Prince Roman
- Kafka and Conrad: The Character and Function of K in Central Europe
- 3. The Chinese Character of Romanization: Conrad and Lu Xun
- The Chinese Script Revolution and Romanization
- Conrad's Chinese Characters: Almayer's Folly to Victory
- Conrad and Lu Xun: The Interface of Chineseand Roman Characters
- 4. Sanskritization, Romanization, Digitization
- Sanskritization
- Sanskritization and Romanization in the OED and in Pramoedya Ananta Toer
- Digitization
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: GoGwilt, Christopher The K-Effect
- ISBN:
- 1-5315-0510-4
- OCLC:
- 1419788510
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