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In and out of sight : modernist writing and the photographic unseen /

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Building on work in visual culture studies that emphasizes the interplay between still and moving images, In and Out of Sight provides a new account of the relationship between photography and modernist writing, revealing the conceptual space of literary modernism to be radically constructed around...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beeston, Alix (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Series:Modernist literature & culture.
Subjects:
Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946. > Three lives.
Toomer, Jean, > 1894-1967. > Cane.
Dos Passos, John, > 1896-1970. > Manhattan transfer.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott > (Francis Scott), > 1896-1940 > Motion picture plays.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and photography > United States > History > 20th century.
Women in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Things normally unseen
  • Bodies bad and gentle: The surrealist convulsions of Gertrude Stein's Three Lives
  • Black ash is white flesh: Reframing Jean Toomer's Cane
  • Frozen in the glassy, bluestreaked air: John Dos Passos's photographic metropolis
  • Torn, burned, and yet dancing: The Hollywood writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • CODA: Shared hallucinations.