Material Modernism: The Politics of the Page

by George Bornstein

Book Overview

Material Modernism draws on editorial theory, cultural studies and the history of the book to argue for a freshly historicized reading of modernism. Instead of taking texts as consisting of disembodied words, Bornstein considers their physical bodies as themselves semantically important. He argues that current constructions of literary modernism - like those that regard its achievements and attitudes as favoring the anti-historical over the historical,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521024854
• ISBN13: 9780521024853
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"