The Eye's Mind : : Literary Modernism and Visual Culture / / Karen Jacobs.
The Eye's Mind significantly alters our understanding of modernist literature by showing how changing visual discourses, techniques, and technologies affected the novels of that period. In readings that bring philosophies of vision into dialogue with photography and film as well as the methods...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Modernism and the Body as Afterimage
- PART I: THE EYE IN THE TEXT
- 2. The Eye's Mind: Self-Detection in James's The Sacred Fount and Nabokov's The Eye
- 3. Two Mirrors Facing: Freud, Blanchot, and the Logic of Invisibility
- PART II: THE BODY VISIBLE IN THE LENS OF AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE
- 4. From "Spyglass" to "Horizon": Tracking the Anthropological Gaze in Zora Neale Hurston
- 5. One-Eyed Jacks and Three-Eyed Monsters: Visualizing Embodiment in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
- PART III: AUDIENCE AND SPECTACLE
- 6. Spectacles of Violence, Stages of Art: Walter Benjamin and Virginia Woolf's Dialectic
- 7. Modernist Seductions: Materializing Mass Culture in Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust
- Postscript: From "Our Glass Lake" to "Hourglass Lake": Photo/graphic Memory in Nabokov's Lolita
- Bibliography
- Index