Modernist Experiments in Genre, Media, and Transatlantic Print Culture

Zusatztext "Ultimately! Sorensen's work is a welcome addition to the growing body of scholarship on the matter of modernism and offers new and necessary pathways into the work of these well-known writers."- Eurie Dahn! College of Saint Rose! The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies Informationen zum Autor Jennifer J. Sorensen is Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M, Corpus Christi, USA. Zusammenfassung Examining works by Henry James, Jean Toomer, Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, and Virginia Woolf, Jennifer Sorensen argues that the formal strategies of modernist texts can only be fully understood in the context of the material forms and circuits of print culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS List of Figures Introduction: Material Formalism and Dynamic Materiality I. Play with Periodical Pagescapes Chapter One: Henry James Experiments with Print Culture Pagescapes in Transatlantic Periodicals II. Bookish Bodies Chapter Two: Reading the Body of Boni & Liveright’s & Djuna Barnes’s A Book Chapter Three: Broken Arcs and Black Super-Vaudeville: Design and Dismemberment in the Boni & Liveright Production of Jean Toomer’s Cane III. Mixed-Media Material Aesthetics Chapter Four: Reframing the Book Chapter Five: Mixed-Media Modernism and the Book-as-Object Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Jennifer Julia Sorensen, Jennifer (Oberlin College Julia Sorensen, Julia Sorensen Jennifer
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367346782
• ISBN: 978-0-367-34678-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism