Hieroglyphic Modernisms

Writing and New Media in the Twentieth Century

AvJesse Schotter

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture

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Hieroglyphic Modernisms explores this conjunction of hieroglyphs and modernist fiction and film, revealing how the challenge of new media spurred a fertile interplay among practitioners of old and new media forms.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-12-18
Mått:156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt:530 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474424776

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Jesse Schotter is Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 2011.

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Hieroglyphic Modernisms is carefully argued, well researched, and granular in its distinctions. It draws together an impressive array of films and texts that take up the discourse of hieroglyphs, but it does not sacrifice close attention to language and literary form.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: A Hieroglyphic Civilization Part I:1. Misreading Egypt 2. The Hieroglyphics of Character 3. Sound Enclosures Part II:4. The ‘Essence’ of Egypt 5. Solving the Problem of Babel 6. Matrices and Metaverses Coda: The Rosetta Stone Bibliography