{"product_id":"the-death-of-the-book-9780823270989","title":"The Death of the Book","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn examination of the ways major modernist novels use the physical book to track the passing of time in which reading necessarily unfolds, this study explores the sense of finitude and transience that the works of Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf share with and transmit to their readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Death of the Book is an admirably detailed and unfailingly subtle meditation of the novels of Proust, Joyce and Woolf, works in which the image of the open book or the act of reading figure the relationship between the life represented within the novel and the extra-literary life of its readers.\" -- -Maria DiBattista Princeton University \"In The Death of the Book, Lurz demonstrates serious intellectual agility, moving between his objects of study with complexity and aplomb. In this formalist-materialist account of modernism, readers are treated to a delightful set of close readings of key modernist texts that want to take the book-as-object seriously. Crisp and lucid in argumentation, The Death of the Book is a fascinating account of modernist materialism, arguing that, as critics, we need to go beyond thinking about how literature began to act like emergent technological forms and instead turn our attention to the sensuous object of the book itself.\" -- -Dana Seitler University of Toronto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Opening the Book    Chapter 1. The Books of the Recherche    Chapter 2. The Reader of Ulysses    Chapter 3. The Dark Print of Finnegans Wake    Chapter 4. The Pages in Jacob's Room    Chapter 5. The Binding of The Waves    Coda: The Afterlives of Reading     Notes     Bibliography","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406144741719,"sku":"9780823270989","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823270989.jpg?v=1730494680","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-death-of-the-book-9780823270989","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}