- Title Information
- Title
- Authentic Modernism: Ekphrasis and Objecthood in British and American Literature of the Early Twentieth Century
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Blizard, Dawn E.
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Text
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- 2009
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- ix, 236 p.
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- born digital
- Note
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Brown University (2009)
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Scholes, Robert
- Role
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Text
- director
- Name:
Personal
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- Armstrong, Paul
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Text
- reader
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Personal
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- Bewes, Timothy
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Text
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Corporate
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- Brown University. English
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- Abstract
- This dissertation examines ekphrasis in literary modernism?the verbal representation of visual artworks. In modernist studies the relationship between literature and painting has
long been conceived as a "special," privileged, or important one, but scholars have predominantly attempted to describe this relationship from formalist perspectives?which imagine entities like
"literature" and "painting" to be historically and epistemologically stable categories, operating the same way at all times and in all places?or from biographical perspectives?searching in
writers' lives for evidence of contacts with paintings or artists in order to establish a narrative of influence. My project instead brings a cultural studies perspective to bear on this
problem, arguing that the various modernisms it considers?both subjective and objective, British and American, avant-garde and nostalgic?can be understood as interrelated efforts to come to
terms with contemporary changes in the production and reception of art that allowed it to reach unprecedentedly large international audiences, to be apprehended by geographically scattered and
economically diverse publics. As technological innovations like photography and lithography made copies of paintings increasingly available, a dramatic surge in the number of art museums in
America and the development of new venues for viewing art in European capitals made their originals more accessible as well. For the writers whose work I study?Henry James, Roger Fry, Virginia
Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, and Gertrude Stein?this dispersal of modern artworks and their viewers was a paradoxical source of both anxiety and utopian potential, reflected in their efforts to declare
literature incommensurate with painting.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- modernism
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- visual culture
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- materiality
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- Topic
- literature & painting
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1030128")
- Topic
- Museums
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/798702")
- Topic
- Aesthetics
- Subject (FAST)
(authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/815400")
- Topic
- Art and literature
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- 20091218
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- eng
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- English
- Identifier:
DOI
- 10.7301/Z0V12322
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- dissertations