Multimedia Modernism: Literature and the Anglo-American Avant-Garde

by Julian Murphet

Multimedia Modernism explores the complex effects of a new media environment on avant-garde literary production in the early twentieth century. During this period, the likes of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky wrote works which, in one way or another, attest to the immense effect that photography, cinematography, mechanical print technology and visual advertising had on the established arts. Re-reading modernism's technological origins...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521513456
• ISBN13: 9780521513456
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"