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  title info:
    title: Hieroglyphic modernisms
    sub title: writing and new media in the twentieth century
  name:
    name part: Schotter, Jesse
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: stk
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: In the British Museum, one object attracts more tourists than any other, the Rosetta Stone. The decipherment of the Stone by Jean-François Champollion and the discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 contributed to creating a worldwide vogue for all things Egyptian. This fascination was shared by early twentieth-century authors who invoked Egyptian writing to paint a more complicated picture of European interest in non-Western languages. Hieroglyphs can be found everywhere in modernist novels and in discussions of silent film, appearing at moments when writers and theorists seek to understand the similarities or differences between writing and new recording technologies. Hieroglyphic Modernisms explores this conjunction of hieroglyphs and modernist fiction and film, revealing how the challenge of new media spurred a fertile interplay among practitioners of old and new media forms. Showing how novelists and film theorists in the modernist period defined their respective media in relation to each other, the book shifts the focus in modernism from China, poetry and the avantgarde to Egypt, narrative and film.
  note: Jesse Schotter.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-256) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Modernism (Literature)
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    topic: Hieroglyphics
  classification: PN56.M54 S37 2018
  classification: 493.111
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture
  identifier: 9781474424776
  identifier: 1474424775
  record info:
    record content source: NLE
    record creation date: 171219
    record change date: 20180718085554.0
    record identifier: in00003962827