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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of the delights of this monograph is its omnivorous intermediality. Those interested in the interweaving of literary, artistic, and cultural disciplines through modernism will find this study interesting not only for its scope, but for the questions it throws up about a future of modernist studies which attends equally to the different strains of criticism that have shaped the field.
* The Modernist Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reformulating Modernism
1. Plastic Form: Henry James's Sculptural Aesthetics and Reading in the Round
2. Mortal Form: Still Life and Virginia Woolf 's Other Elegiac Shapes
3. Protean Form: Erotic Abstraction and Ardent Futurity in the Poetry of Mina Loy
4. Bad Formalism: Evelyn Waugh's Film Fictions and the Work of Art in the Age of Cinemechanics
5. Surface Forms: Photography and Gertrude Stein's Contact History of Modernism
Epilogue: The Consolations of Form
