The death of the book : modernist novels and the time of reading /
Lurz, John,
The death of the book : modernist novels and the time of reading / John Lurz. - First edition. - New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
The books of the Recherche -- The reader of Ulysses -- The dark print of Finnegans Wake -- The pages in Jacob's room -- The binding of the waves -- Coda: The afterlives of reading.
An 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.
9780823271016 9780823271009 9780823270996
Modernism (Literature)
Books and reading.
Electronic Books.
PN56 / .D438 2016
The death of the book : modernist novels and the time of reading / John Lurz. - First edition. - New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
The books of the Recherche -- The reader of Ulysses -- The dark print of Finnegans Wake -- The pages in Jacob's room -- The binding of the waves -- Coda: The afterlives of reading.
An 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.
9780823271016 9780823271009 9780823270996
Modernism (Literature)
Books and reading.
Electronic Books.
PN56 / .D438 2016