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Subject(s)

• Modernism (Literature)—Great Britain [Browse]
• Modernism (Literature)—United States [Browse]
• Modernism (Art)—Great Britain [Browse]
• Modernism (Art)—United States [Browse]
• Art and literature—Great Britain—History—20th century [Browse]
• Art and literature—United States—History—20th century [Browse]
• Formalism (Literary analysis)—History [Browse]
• Formalism (Art)—History [Browse]
• Literary form—History—20th century [Browse]
• English literature—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]

Series

Cornell scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

'Dynamic Form' traces how intermedial experiments shape modernist texts from 1900 to 1950. Considering literature alongside painting, sculpture, photography, and film, Cara Lewis examines how these arts inflect narrative movement, contribute to plot events, and configure poetry and memoir.

Notes

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 16, 2020).

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.

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ISBN

1-5017-4919-6

OCLC

1198930283

Doi

• 10.1515/9781501749193

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