TY - BOOK AU - Lurz,John TI - The Death of the Book: Modernist Novels and the Time of Reading SN - 9780823270989 AV - PN56.M54 U1 - 809/.9112 23 PY - 2016///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Fordham University Press, KW - Books and reading KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Literary Studies KW - Philosophy & Theory KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century KW - bisacsh KW - James Joyce KW - Marcel Proust KW - Virginia Woolf KW - book KW - finitude KW - materiality KW - mediation KW - modernism KW - reading KW - temporality N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823271009?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823271009 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823271009/original ER -