Rereading modernist postcards : critical studies in materialist recovery / Bradley D. Clissold.
"Using both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the critical history of postcard use in the fiction and correspondence of Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, James Joyce, and Wilfred Owen, this book locates and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2024.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature.
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| Summary: | "Using both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the critical history of postcard use in the fiction and correspondence of Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, James Joyce, and Wilfred Owen, this book locates and attempts to rediscover lost, misplaced, and neglected postcard materialities, as they relate to the archiving, editing, publishing, and fictional repurposing of postcards across Anglo-American Literary Modernism (1880-1939). It argues that postcards need to be recognized as important early twentieth-century communication technologies and distinctly modernist textualities, composed of multi-media, recto-verso intertextualities. Moreover, their material limitations encourage users to inscribe messages often in fragmented language forms and innovative cultural shorthands (a.k.a. postcardese). This study redresses the ongoing, widespread scholarly neglect of signifying postcard materialities in modernist studies and the editorial silencing of postcard features in collections of published author correspondence. It also stresses that for these four literary figures of modernism, the material choice of a postcard for communicating is always as much the (meta)message, as any of the signifying materialities they carry uploaded onto their platforming surfaces"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 253 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781003378402 1003378404 9781000922783 1000922782 9781000922745 100092274X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 26, 2023). |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Bradley D. Clissold is Associate Professor of Literature, Film, and Communication Studies at Memorial University. |