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Virtual modernism : writing and technology in the Progressive Era, Katherine Biers
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- " In Virtual Modernism, Katherine Biers offers a fresh view of the emergence of American literary modernism from the eruption of popular culture in the early twentieth century. Employing dynamic readings of the works of Stephen Crane, Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein, she argues that American modernist writers developed a "poetics of the virtual" in response to the rise of mass communications technologies before World War I. These authors' modernist formal experimentation was provoked by the immediate, individualistic pleasures and thrills of mass culture. But they also retained a faith in the representational power of language--and the worth of common experience--more characteristic of realism and naturalism. In competition with new media experiences such as movies and recorded music, they simultaneously rejected and embraced modernity. Biers establishes the virtual poetics of these five writers as part of a larger "virtual turn" in the United States, when a fascination with the writings of Henri Bergson, William James, and vitalist philosophy--and the idea of virtual experience--swept the nation. Virtual Modernism contends that a turn to the virtual experience of language was a way for each of these authors to carve out a value for the literary, both with and against the growth of mass entertainments. This technologically inspired reengagement with experience was formative for American modernism. Situated at the crossing points of literary criticism, philosophy, media studies, and history, Virtual Modernism provides an examination of Progressive Era preoccupations with the cognitive and corporeal effects of new media technologies that traces an important genealogy of present-day concerns with virtuality. "--
- "In Virtual Modernism, Katherine Biers offers a fresh view of the emergence of American literary modernism from the eruption of popular culture in the early twentieth century. Employing dynamic readings of the works of Stephen Crane, Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein, she argues that American modernist writers developed a "poetics of the virtual" in response to the rise of mass communications technologies before World War I. These authors' modernist formal experimentation was provoked by the immediate, individualistic pleasures and thrills of mass culture. But they also retained a faith in the representational power of language--and the worth of common experience--more characteristic of realism and naturalism. In competition with new media experiences such as movies and recorded music, they simultaneously rejected and embraced modernity. Biers establishes the virtual poetics of these five writers as part of a larger "virtual turn" in the United States, when a fascination with the writings of Henri Bergson, William James, and vitalist philosophy--and the idea of virtual experience--swept the nation. Virtual Modernism contends that a turn to the virtual experience of language was a way for each of these authors to carve out a value for the literary, both with and against the growth of mass entertainments. This technologically inspired reengagement with experience was formative for American modernism. Situated at the crossing points of literary criticism, philosophy, media studies, and history, Virtual Modernism provides an examination of Progressive Era preoccupations with the cognitive and corporeal effects of new media technologies that traces an important genealogy of present-day concerns with virtuality."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 271 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction: The Promise of the Virtual -- 1. Stephen Crane's Abilities -- 2. Realizing Tribly: Henry James, George du Maurier, and the Intermedial Scene -- 3. Syncope Fever: James Weldon Johnson and the Black Phonographic Voice -- 4. Wonder and Decay: Djuna Barnes's New York -- 5. Gertrude Stein Talking
- Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Introduction: The Promise of the Virtual -- 1. Stephen Crane's Abilities -- 2. Realizing Tribly: Henry James, George du Maurier, and the Intermedial Scene -- 3. Syncope Fever: James Weldon Johnson and the Black Phonographic Voice -- 4. Wonder and Decay: Djuna Barnes's New York -- 5. Gertrude Stein Talking -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
- Isbn
- 9780816667543
- Label
- Virtual modernism : writing and technology in the Progressive Era
- Title
- Virtual modernism
- Title remainder
- writing and technology in the Progressive Era
- Statement of responsibility
- Katherine Biers
- Subject
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- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- History
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Literature and technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- " In Virtual Modernism, Katherine Biers offers a fresh view of the emergence of American literary modernism from the eruption of popular culture in the early twentieth century. Employing dynamic readings of the works of Stephen Crane, Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein, she argues that American modernist writers developed a "poetics of the virtual" in response to the rise of mass communications technologies before World War I. These authors' modernist formal experimentation was provoked by the immediate, individualistic pleasures and thrills of mass culture. But they also retained a faith in the representational power of language--and the worth of common experience--more characteristic of realism and naturalism. In competition with new media experiences such as movies and recorded music, they simultaneously rejected and embraced modernity. Biers establishes the virtual poetics of these five writers as part of a larger "virtual turn" in the United States, when a fascination with the writings of Henri Bergson, William James, and vitalist philosophy--and the idea of virtual experience--swept the nation. Virtual Modernism contends that a turn to the virtual experience of language was a way for each of these authors to carve out a value for the literary, both with and against the growth of mass entertainments. This technologically inspired reengagement with experience was formative for American modernism. Situated at the crossing points of literary criticism, philosophy, media studies, and history, Virtual Modernism provides an examination of Progressive Era preoccupations with the cognitive and corporeal effects of new media technologies that traces an important genealogy of present-day concerns with virtuality. "--
- "In Virtual Modernism, Katherine Biers offers a fresh view of the emergence of American literary modernism from the eruption of popular culture in the early twentieth century. Employing dynamic readings of the works of Stephen Crane, Henry James, James Weldon Johnson, Djuna Barnes, and Gertrude Stein, she argues that American modernist writers developed a "poetics of the virtual" in response to the rise of mass communications technologies before World War I. These authors' modernist formal experimentation was provoked by the immediate, individualistic pleasures and thrills of mass culture. But they also retained a faith in the representational power of language--and the worth of common experience--more characteristic of realism and naturalism. In competition with new media experiences such as movies and recorded music, they simultaneously rejected and embraced modernity. Biers establishes the virtual poetics of these five writers as part of a larger "virtual turn" in the United States, when a fascination with the writings of Henri Bergson, William James, and vitalist philosophy--and the idea of virtual experience--swept the nation. Virtual Modernism contends that a turn to the virtual experience of language was a way for each of these authors to carve out a value for the literary, both with and against the growth of mass entertainments. This technologically inspired reengagement with experience was formative for American modernism. Situated at the crossing points of literary criticism, philosophy, media studies, and history, Virtual Modernism provides an examination of Progressive Era preoccupations with the cognitive and corporeal effects of new media technologies that traces an important genealogy of present-day concerns with virtuality."--
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- Biers, Katherine
- Dewey number
- 810.9/112
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS228.M63
- LC item number
- B54 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- American literature
- Modernism (Literature)
- Literature and technology
- Popular culture
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- HISTORY
- HISTORY
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- Virtual modernism : writing and technology in the Progressive Era, Katherine Biers
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Contents
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- Introduction: The Promise of the Virtual -- 1. Stephen Crane's Abilities -- 2. Realizing Tribly: Henry James, George du Maurier, and the Intermedial Scene -- 3. Syncope Fever: James Weldon Johnson and the Black Phonographic Voice -- 4. Wonder and Decay: Djuna Barnes's New York -- 5. Gertrude Stein Talking
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- Control code
- 840465522
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 271 pages
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- 9780816667543
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- 2013018885
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- Virtual modernism : writing and technology in the Progressive Era, Katherine Biers
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Contents
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- Introduction: The Promise of the Virtual -- 1. Stephen Crane's Abilities -- 2. Realizing Tribly: Henry James, George du Maurier, and the Intermedial Scene -- 3. Syncope Fever: James Weldon Johnson and the Black Phonographic Voice -- 4. Wonder and Decay: Djuna Barnes's New York -- 5. Gertrude Stein Talking
- Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Introduction: The Promise of the Virtual -- 1. Stephen Crane's Abilities -- 2. Realizing Tribly: Henry James, George du Maurier, and the Intermedial Scene -- 3. Syncope Fever: James Weldon Johnson and the Black Phonographic Voice -- 4. Wonder and Decay: Djuna Barnes's New York -- 5. Gertrude Stein Talking -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
- Control code
- 840465522
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 271 pages
- Isbn
- 9780816667543
- Lccn
- 2013018885
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- unmediated
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- rdamedia.
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- (OCoLC)840465522
Subject
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- History
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Literature and technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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