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Author Lewis, Cara L., 1983- author.

Title Dynamic form : how intermediality made modernism / Cara L. Lewis
Published Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-304) and index
Notes In English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 26, 2020)
Subject Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
Modernism (Literature) -- United States
Modernism (Art) -- Great Britain
Modernism (Art) -- United States
Art and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Art and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Formalism (Literary analysis) -- History
Formalism (Art) -- History
Literary form -- History -- 20th century
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
PHOTOGRAPHY / History
American literature
Art and literature
English literature
Formalism (Art)
Formalism (Literary analysis)
Literary form
Modernism (Art)
Modernism (Literature)
Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019040744
ISBN 9781501749186
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