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Dynamic Form : How Intermediality Made Modernism /

"Dynamic Form offers a new conceptual and historical account of modernism through an emphasis on the intersecting domains of visual and narrative media. The project analyzes texts from the first five decades of the twentieth century alongside sculptures, paintings, photographs, and films in ord...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lewis, Cara L., 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : reformulating modernism
  • Plastic form : Henry James's sculptural aesthetics and reading in the round
  • Mortal form : still life and Virginia Woolf's other elegiac shapes
  • Protean form : erotic abstraction and ardent futurity in the poetry of Mina Loy
  • Bad formalism : Evelyn Waugh's film fictions and the work of art in the age of cinemechanics
  • Surface forms : photography and Gertrude Stein's contact history of modernism
  • Epilogue : the consolations of form.