Literature and Visual Technologies: Writing After Cinema

by J. Murphet (Editor), L. Rainford (Editor)

Overview

This is the first major collection of essays specifically to address the impact of visual technologies on the production of literature in the twentieth-century. Literature and Visual Technologies investigates the manifold effects which a visual century has wrought upon literary conventions. From the influence of Mutoscope parlours on Joyce's fiction, to the interrelation between Peter Greenaway's A TV Dante , the collection consists of an integrated series of high-level intellectual engagements with a hundred years of cultural revolution, and covers the whole twentieth-century, from silent to digital film.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403913081
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/05/2003
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

TIM ARMSTRONG Reader in Modern English and American Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London RACHEL CONNOR Lecturer, Department of English Literature, University of Glasgow PAULA GEYH Assistant Professor of English, Yeshiva University ELENA GUALTIERI Lecturer in English, University of Sussex COLIN MACCABE Distinguished Professor of English and Film, University of Pittsburgh, USA LAURA MARCUS Reader in English, University of Sussex MICHAEL NORTH Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles ARKADY PLOTNITSKY Professor of English and University Faculty Scholar, Purdue University ERIC ROBERTSON Senior Lecturer in French, Royal Holloway, University of London KEITH WILLIAMS Senior Lecturer in English, University of Dundee

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introductions; J.Murphet & L.Rainford PART 1: PARAMETERS On Impurity: The Dialectics of Cinema and Literature; C.MacCabe How Newness Enters the World: The Birth of Cinema and the Origins of Man; L.Marcus PART 2: MODERNISMS International Media, International Modernism and the Struggle with Sound; M.North Gertrude Stein's Machinery of Perception; J.Murphet H.D.'s The Gift : an 'endless storeroom of film'; R.Connor Ulysses in Toontown: 'Vision Animated to Bursting Point' in Joyce's 'Circe'; K.Williams PART 3: BRIDGES Len Lye and Laura Riding in the 1930s: The Impossibility of Film and Literature; T.Armstrong Writing the Alphabet of Cinema: Blaise Cendrars; E.Robertson The Grammar of Time: Photography, Modernism and History; E.Gualtieri PART 4: AFTER THE MODERN How to Read the Image?: Beckett's Televisual Memory; L.Rainford Writing Images, Images of Writing: Tom Phillips's A Humument and Peter Greenaway's Textual Cinema; A.Plotnitsky & P.Geyh Index