{"product_id":"in-and-out-of-sight-modernist-writing-and-the-photographic-unseen-9780190690168","title":"In and Out of Sight: Modernist Writing and the Photographic Unseen","description":"In a post-digital media landscape tracked endlessly by streams and feeds of images, it is clearer than ever that photography is an art poised between arresting singularity and ambiguous plurality. Drawing on work in visual culture studies that emphasizes the interplay between still and moving\u003cbr\u003eimages, \u003cem\u003eIn and Out of Sight\u003c\/em\u003e provides a provocative new account of the relationship between photography and modernist literature--a literature which has long been considered to trace, in its formal experimentation, the influence of modern visual technologies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaking pioneering claims about the importance of photography to the writing of Gertrude Stein, Jean Toomer, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Alix Beeston traverses the history of photography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the composite experiments of Francis\u003cbr\u003eGalton to the epic portrait project of August Sander; from the surrealist self-fashioning of Claude Cahun to the reappropriation of lynching photographs by black activist groups; from the collectable postcards of Broadway stars to the glamour shots of Hollywood celebrities-these and other serialized\u003cbr\u003ephotographic projects provide essential contexts for understanding the fragmentary, composite forms of literary modernism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a series of richly detailed literary analyses, Beeston argues that the gaps and intervals of the composite literary text model the visual syntax of photography--as well as its silences, absences, and equivocations. In them, the social and political order of modernity is negotiated and reshaped.\u003cbr\u003eMoving in and out of these textual openings, \u003cem\u003eIn and Out of Sight \u003c\/em\u003epursues the fleeting, visible and invisible figure of the woman-in-series, who recasts absence and silence as forms of presence and witness. This shadowy figure emerges as central to the conceptual space of modernist literature--a\u003cbr\u003eterrain not only gendered but radically constructed around the instability of female bodies and their desires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alix Beeston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/04\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190690168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlix Beeston\u003c\/strong\u003e is Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Cardiff University, Wales.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39929218695283,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":92.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_0863ce04-1e11-4a40-9ddb-8810bfefee50.jpg?v=1647611777","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/in-and-out-of-sight-modernist-writing-and-the-photographic-unseen-9780190690168","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}