Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-251) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Things normally unseen -- Bodies bad and gentle: The surrealist convulsions of Gertrude Stein's Three Lives -- Black ash is white flesh: Reframing Jean Toomer's Cane -- Frozen in the glassy, bluestreaked air: John Dos Passos's photographic metropolis -- Torn, burned, and yet dancing: The Hollywood writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald -- CODA: Shared hallucinations.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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