Description
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary examination of the responses of literary authors in Germany, from 1895-1930, to the emerging media of image and sound recording.
Trade Review“In sum, the author succeeds at proposing a revised perspective on what could broadly be termed literary modernism in a way that takes modernism’s often only implicitly formulated relation to its own mediascape seriously.”
—Gerhard Richter,University of California, Davis
“Well conceived and shrewdly executed, Mediating Modernity impressively traces the ever-shifting relations between modes of literary discourse such as the novel and the mediascape in which photography, film, gramophone, and other technologies transform the ways in which we think, write, and read. It should be of compelling interest to readers in German studies, comparative literature, media studies, cultural studies, and art history.”
—Gerhard Richter,University of California, Davis
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Print in the Age of Edison
2. Exposures: Rilke, Photography, and the City
3. Kinetic Writing and Kino-Books
4. Crisis of the Novel: Döblin’s Media Aesthetic
5. From Wordminded to Eyeminded: John Dos Passos’s Image-Text
Notes
Bibliography
Index
