New PDF release: Modernist Experiments in Genre, Media, and Transatlantic

By Jennifer Julia Sorensen

The years from 1890 via 1935 witnessed an explosion of print, either by way of the diversity of venues for e-book and within the enormous circulate figures and the volume of print boards. Arguing that the formal suggestions of modernist texts can purely be totally understood within the context of the fabric varieties and circuits of print tradition by which they have been produced and disbursed, Jennifer Sorensen indicates how authors and publishers conceptualized the fabric textual content as an item, as a physique, and as an ontological challenge. She examines works through Henry James, Jean Toomer, Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, and Virginia Woolf, displaying that they understood acts of studying as materially mediated encounters. Sorensen attracts on fresh textual concept, media idea, archival fabrics, and paratexts similar to ads, illustrations, publication designs, drafts, diaries, airborne dirt and dust jackets, notes, and frontispieces, to illustrate how those writers considerably redefined literary genres and refashioned the cloth types by which their literary experiments reached the general public. putting the literary textual content on the heart of inquiry whereas at the same time increasing the bounds of what counts as that,? Sorensen indicates that modernist widespread and formal experimentation used to be deeply engaged with particular print histories that generated aggressive media ecologies of pageant and hybridization.

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