Synopses & Reviews
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.
Synopsis
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
About the Author
Julian Murphet is Lecturer in English at the University of Sydney.
Lydia Rainford is a Junior Research Fellow at St Hugh's College, Oxford.
Table of Contents
Introductions--J. Murphet & L. Rainford *
Part 1: Parameters 'On Impurity: The Dialectics of Film 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 * 'Toward the Rhythm of the Visible World: Gertrude Stein's Machinery of Perception'--J. Murphet * 'H.D.'s
The Gift: "an endless store room 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 Cendrar's'--E. Roberts * 'The Grammar of Time: Modernism, Narrative and Photography in Barthes, Proust and Musil'--E. Gualtieri *
Part 4: After the Modern * 'No Intermission: 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,P * Conclusion