1st Edition
Rereading Modernist Postcards Critical Studies in Materialist Recovery
By Bradley D. Clissold
Copyright 2024
278 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
278 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
278 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Informed by both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the critical history of postcard use in the fiction and correspondence of Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, James Joyce, and Wilfred Owen, this book locates and attempts to rediscover lost, misplaced, and neglected postcard materialities, as they relate to... Read more
Preface: To Read or not to Read? That is the Materialist Question!
1. Remixing the Matters of Postcards
2. Making an Example out of Hemingway and His Corresponding Postcards
3. The Repressed Postcard always Rings Twice: Ring Lardner’s Negative Postcard Aesthetics
4. My Travels through Postcards with James Joyce: The "U P.:up" Postcard as Prescient Postal Entrapment
5. How to Make a Modernist: Wilfred Owen as Found Postcard Poet
Biography
Bradley D. Clissold is Associate Professor of Literature, Film, and Communication Studies at Memorial University.
