Multimedia Modernism: Literature and the Anglo-American Avant-garde

Hardback

Main Details

Title Multimedia Modernism: Literature and the Anglo-American Avant-garde
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Julian Murphet
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:232
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 155
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
ISBN/Barcode 9780521513456
ClassificationsDewey:700.4112
Audience
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations 2 Halftones, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 30 April 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Multimedia Modernism explores the complex effects of a new media environment on avant-garde literary production in the early twentieth century. During this period, the likes of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky wrote works which, in one way or another, attest to the immense effect that photography, cinematography, mechanical print technology and visual advertising had on the established arts. Re-reading modernism's technological origins through the lens of media theory, this innovative study proposes a serious new methodological approach to modernism in general. Examining a wide range of literature that includes Gertrude Stein's contributions to Camera Work, Louis Zukofsky's groundbreaking poem 'A' and Wyndham Lewis's celebrated Blast, this book embeds literary revolution within media evolution to show that literary criticism and media history have a lot to learn from each other.

Author Biography

Julian Murphet is Professor of Modern Film and Literature at the University of New South Wales.