In and Out of Sight - Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen

Building on work in visual culture studies that emphasizes the interplay between still and moving images, In and Out of Sight provides a new account of the relationship between photography and modernist writing--revealing the conceptual space of literary modernism to be radically constructed around the instability of female bodies.

List of contents

• Introduction: Things Normally Unseen


• Chapter 1: Bodies Bad and Gentle: The Surrealist Convulsions of Gertrude Stein's Three Lives


• Chapter 2: Black Flesh is White Ash: Reframing Jean Toomer's Cane


• Chapter 3: Frozen in the Glassy, Bluestreaked Air: John Dos Passos's Photographic Metropolis


• Chapter 4: Torn, Burned, and Yet Dancing: The Hollywood Writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald


• Coda: Shared Hallucinations


• Works Cited

About the author

Alix Beeston is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Cardiff University, Wales.

Summary

Building on work in visual culture studies that emphasizes the interplay between still and moving images, In and Out of Sight provides a new account of the relationship between photography and modernist writing--revealing the conceptual space of literary modernism to be radically constructed around the instability of female bodies.

Additional text

Alix Beeston's In and Out of Sight is one of several exciting and innovative accounts of the relation between literature and photography to appear in recent years, studies that have charted a new course for the field away from a focus on questions of realism and indexicality... the readings that emerge are powerful and persuasive... [it] is a welcome contribution to modernist and visual studies, persuasive evidence that these intertwined fields remain as vibrant as ever.

Product details

• Authors: Alix Beeston, Alix ( Beeston, Alix (Cardiff University) Beeston
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2022
• EAN: 9780197673010
• ISBN: 978-0-19-767301-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, ART / History / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Regional, History of art / art & design styles, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Photography and photographs, media; photography; moving; images