Collage and Literature - The Persistence of Vision

List of contents

1. Collage Form and Collage Theory 2. Logical Sentiment 3. A Private Public Sphere 4. Recycled Images 5. Cryptic Versions

About the author

Scarlett Higgins received her PhD in 2005 from the University of Chicago in English Language and Literature. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico in the English Language and Literature Department, and Chair of the Women Studies program. She has published articles in The Langston Hughes Review, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Arizona Quarterly, and Textual Practice, and chapters in Black Music, Black Poetry (Ashgate, 2014), Evaluation: US Poetry after 1950 (University of New Mexico Press, forthcoming), and The Critical Experience (forthcoming).

Summary

The Persistence of Vision analyzes how and why the history of literature and art changed irrevocably beginning in the early years of the twentieth century, and what that change has meant for late modernism and postmodernism. Starting from Pablo Picasso’s 1912 gesture, breaking the fundamental logic of representation.

Product details

• Authors: Scarlett Higgins
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367665920
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66592-0
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000