Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print by Rosenberg, Joseph Elkanah
Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print by Rosenberg, Joseph Elkanah

Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print

From Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from...
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Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print by Rosenberg, Joseph Elkanah

Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print

$286.90
Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print by Rosenberg, Joseph Elkanah

Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print

$286.90
Author: Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
From Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that reveal an increasingly uneasy relationship between literature and its own materials over the course of the twentieth-century.

Wastepaper Modernism argues that these images are vital to our understanding of modernism, disclosing an anxiety about textual matter that lurks behind the desire for radically different modes of communication. At the same time that writers were becoming infatuated with new technologies like the cinema and the radio, they were also being haunted by their own pages. Having its roots in the late-nineteenth century, but finding its fullest constellation in the wake of the high modernist experimentation with novelistic form, "wastepaper modernism" arises when fiction imagines its own processes of transmission and representation breaking down. When the descriptive capabilities of the novel exhaust themselves, the wastepaper modernists picture instead the physical decay of the book's own primary matter. Bringing together book history and media theory with detailed close reading, Wastepaper Modernism reveals modernist literature's dark sense of itself as a ruin in the making.


Author: Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/16/2021
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780198852445

About the Author

Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg, Assistant Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana

Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg is an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, where he teaches in the Program of Liberal Studies.

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