{"product_id":"wastepaper-modernism-twentieth-century-fiction-and-the-ruins-of-print-hardcover","title":"Wastepaper Modernism: Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Ruins of Print - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph Elkanah Rosenberg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Henry James' fascination with burnt manuscripts to destroyed books in the fiction of the Blitz; from junk mail in the work of Elizabeth Bowen to bureaucratic paperwork in Vladimir Nabokov; modern fiction is littered with images of tattered and useless paper that reveal an increasingly uneasy relationship between literature and its own materials over the course of the twentieth-century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eWastepaper Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e argues that these images are vital to our understanding of modernism, disclosing an anxiety about textual matter that lurks behind the desire for radically different modes of communication. At the same time that writers were becoming infatuated with new technologies like the cinema and the radio, they were also being haunted by their own pages. Having its roots in the late-nineteenth century, but finding its fullest constellation in the wake of the high modernist experimentation with novelistic form, \"wastepaper modernism\" arises when fiction imagines its own processes of transmission and representation breaking down. When the descriptive capabilities of the novel exhaust themselves, the wastepaper modernists picture instead the physical decay of the book's own primary matter. Bringing together book history and media theory with detailed close reading, \u003cem\u003eWastepaper Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e reveals modernist literature's dark sense of itself as a ruin in the making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Elkanah Rosenberg, \u003cem\u003eAssistant Professor, Program of Liberal Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoseph Elkanah Rosenberg\u003c\/b\u003e is an Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, where he teaches in the Program of Liberal Studies.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.7 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47735984521475,"sku":"9780198852445","price":200.94,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/9310\/7359\/files\/VzJ3ZTJKemduNWtpMGIwd2xyczZPQT09.webp?v=1770915328","url":"https:\/\/annizon.com\/en-it\/products\/wastepaper-modernism-twentieth-century-fiction-and-the-ruins-of-print-hardcover","provider":"annizon.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}