Rereading Modernist Postcards - Critical Studies in Materialist Recovery

Using both new and old media theory, this book locates and attempts to rediscover lost, misplaced, and neglected postcard materialities, as they relate to the archiving, editing, publishing, and fictional repurposing of postcards across Anglo-American Literary Modernism (1880-1939).

List of contents

Preface: To Read or not to Read? That is the Materialist Question!
1. Remixing the Matters of Postcards
2. Making an Example out of Hemingway and His Corresponding Postcards
3. The Repressed Postcard always Rings Twice: Ring Lardner's Negative Postcard Aesthetics
4. My Travels through Postcards with James Joyce: The "U P.:up" Postcard as Prescient Postal Entrapment
5. How to Make a Modernist: Wilfred Owen as Found Postcard Poet

About the author

Bradley D. Clissold is Associate Professor of Literature, Film, and Communication Studies at Memorial University.

Summary

Using both new and old media theory, this book locates and attempts to rediscover lost, misplaced, and neglected postcard materialities, as they relate to the archiving, editing, publishing, and fictional repurposing of postcards across Anglo-American Literary Modernism (1880-1939).

Product details

• Authors: Bradley D. Clissold
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032457277
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3245727-7
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, North America, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000