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The Death of the Book : Modernist Novels and the Time of Reading / John Lurz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823270989
  • 9780823271009
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.9112 23
LOC classification:
  • PN56.M54
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Opening the Book -- 1. The Books of the Recherche -- 2. The Reader of Ulysses -- 3. The Dark Print of Finnegans Wake -- 4. The Pages in Jacob's Room -- 5. The Binding of The Waves -- Coda: The Afterlives of Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: An examination of the ways major novels by Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf draw attention to their embodiment in the object of the book, The Death of the Book considers how bookish format plays a role in some of the twentieth century's most famous literary experiments. Tracking the passing of time in which reading unfolds, these novels position the book's so-called death in terms that refer as much to a simple description of its future vis-à-vis other media forms as to the sense of finitude these books share with and transmit to their readers.As he interrogates the affective, physical, and temporal valences of literature's own traditional format and mode of access, John Lurz shows how these novels stage intersections with the phenomenal world of their readers and develop a conception of literary experience not accounted for by either rigorously historicist or traditionally formalist accounts of the modernist period. Bringing together issues of media and mediation, book history, and modernist aesthetics, The Death of the Book offers a new and deeper understanding of the way we read now.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Opening the Book -- 1. The Books of the Recherche -- 2. The Reader of Ulysses -- 3. The Dark Print of Finnegans Wake -- 4. The Pages in Jacob's Room -- 5. The Binding of The Waves -- Coda: The Afterlives of Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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An examination of the ways major novels by Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf draw attention to their embodiment in the object of the book, The Death of the Book considers how bookish format plays a role in some of the twentieth century's most famous literary experiments. Tracking the passing of time in which reading unfolds, these novels position the book's so-called death in terms that refer as much to a simple description of its future vis-à-vis other media forms as to the sense of finitude these books share with and transmit to their readers.As he interrogates the affective, physical, and temporal valences of literature's own traditional format and mode of access, John Lurz shows how these novels stage intersections with the phenomenal world of their readers and develop a conception of literary experience not accounted for by either rigorously historicist or traditionally formalist accounts of the modernist period. Bringing together issues of media and mediation, book history, and modernist aesthetics, The Death of the Book offers a new and deeper understanding of the way we read now.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)