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The death of the book : modernist novels and the time of reading / John Lurz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, (c)2016.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823271016
  • 9780823271009
  • 9780823270996
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN56 .D438 2016
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
Subject: 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.
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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.

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