Sink or Swim by Gerald Hammond

Sink or Swim by Gerald Hammond

Considering texts by Henry James, Gertrude Stein, James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, James Agee, and William Carlos Williams, alongside film, painting, music, and popular culture, Mark Goble explores the development of American modernism as it was shaped by its response to technology and an attempt to change how literature itself could communicate.

Goble's original readings reinterpret the aesthetics of modernism in the early twentieth century, when new modes of communication made the experience of technology an occasion for profound experimentation and reflection. He follows the assimilation of such old media technologies as the telegraph, telephone, and phonograph and their role in inspiring fantasies of connection, which informed a commitment to the materiality of artistic mediums. Describing how relationships made possible by technology became more powerfully experienced with technology, Goble explores a modernist fetish for media that shows no signs of abating. The mediated life puts technology into communication with a series of shifts in how Americans conceive the mechanics and meanings of their connections to one another, and therefore to the world and to their own modernity.

John Skelton was a rector and ordained priest. He was a court poet for King Henry VII and a tutor to King Henry VIII, as well as a poet laureate at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Gerald Hammond is an English professor at Manchester University. He is the editor of Collected Poems: Richard Lovelace and the author of Fleeting Things and The Creation of the English Bible.

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ISBN 13	9780312156572
ISBN 10	031215657X
Title	Sink or Swim
Author	Gerald Hammond
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	St. Martin's Press
Year published	1997-05-01
Number of pages	176
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