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

Wastepaper Modernism traces how 20th-century writers imagined the fate of paper at the dawn of a new media age.

List of contents

• Dedication


• Acknowledgements


• List of Figures


• Introduction: Reams and Tatters


• 1: Henry James's Literary Remains


• 2: Elizabeth Bowen's Junk Mail


• 3: Paper Bombs


• 4: Vladimir Nabokov's Identity Papers


• Coda: Endpapers


• Bibliography

About the author

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

Summary

Wastepaper Modernism traces how 20th-century writers imagined the fate of paper at the dawn of a new media age.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg, Joseph Elkanah (Assistant Professor Rosenberg
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780198852445
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885244-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series; Oxford Mid-Century Studies
• 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: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form