In and Out of Sight
Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 February 2023
- ISBN 9780197673010
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages276 pages
- Size 156x236x16 mm
- Weight 399 g
- Language English 265
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Short description:
Building on work in visual culture studies that emphasizes the interplay between still and moving images, In and Out of Sight provides a new account of the relationship between photography and modernist writing--revealing the conceptual space of literary modernism to be radically constructed around the instability of female bodies.
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In a post-digital media landscape tracked endlessly by streams and feeds of images, it is clearer than ever that photography is an art poised between arresting singularity and ambiguous plurality. Drawing on work in visual culture studies that emphasizes the interplay between still and moving images, In and Out of Sight provides a provocative new account of the relationship between photography and modernist literature--a literature which has long been considered to trace, in its formal experimentation, the influence of modern visual technologies.
Making pioneering claims about the importance of photography to the writing of Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alix Beeston traverses the history of photography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the composite experiments of Francis Galton to the epic portrait project of August Sander; from the surrealist self-fashioning of Claude Cahun to the reappropriation of lynching photographs by black activist groups; from the collectable postcards of Broadway stars to the glamour shots of Hollywood celebrities-these and other serialized photographic projects provide essential contexts for understanding the fragmentary, composite forms of literary modernism.
In a series of richly detailed literary analyses, Beeston argues that the gaps and intervals of the composite literary text model the visual syntax of photography--as well as its silences, absences, and equivocations. In them, the social and political order of modernity is negotiated and reshaped. Moving in and out of these textual openings, In and Out of Sight pursues the fleeting, visible and invisible figure of the woman-in-series, who recasts absence and silence as forms of presence and witness. This shadowy figure emerges as central to the conceptual space of modernist literature--a terrain not only gendered but radically constructed around the instability of female bodies and their desires.
Beestons methodology has all the hallmarks and pleasures of the current trend in literary studies that blends theoretical subtlety—ably moving between the various branches of media and visual studies, as well as feminist theory and theories of modernity—with archival detail. ... This is an exciting debut, one which discloses through its study of the past consequential insights about how we intercept and areintercepted by mediated forms in our present.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Things Normally Unseen
Chapter 1: Bodies Bad and Gentle: The Surrealist Convulsions of Gertrude Stein's Three Lives
Chapter 2: Black Flesh is White Ash: Reframing Jean Toomer's Cane
Chapter 3: Frozen in the Glassy, Bluestreaked Air: John Dos Passos's Photographic Metropolis
Chapter 4: Torn, Burned, and Yet Dancing: The Hollywood Writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Coda: Shared Hallucinations
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