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Named Person: | Marcel Proust; James Joyce; Virginia Woolf |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Lurz |
ISBN: | 9780823270972 0823270971 9780823270989 082327098X |
OCLC Number: | 988775053 |
Awards: | Winner of Choice: Outstanding Academic Title 2017 |
Description: | 1 v. (199 p.) : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Opening the Book Chapter 1. The Books of the Recherche Chapter 2. The Reader of Ulysses Chapter 3. The Dark Print of Finnegans Wake Chapter 4. The Pages in Jacob's Room Chapter 5. The Binding of The Waves Coda: The Afterlives of Reading Notes Bibliography |
Responsibility: | John Lurz. |
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"The Death of the Book is an admirably detailed and unfailingly subtle meditation of the novels of Proust, Joyce and Woolf, works in which the image of the open book or the act of reading figure the relationship between the life represented within the novel and the extra-literary life of its readers." -- -Maria DiBattista Princeton University "In The Death of the Book, Lurz demonstrates serious intellectual agility, moving between his objects of study with complexity and aplomb. In this formalist-materialist account of modernism, readers are treated to a delightful set of close readings of key modernist texts that want to take the book-as-object seriously. Crisp and lucid in argumentation, The Death of the Book is a fascinating account of modernist materialism, arguing that, as critics, we need to go beyond thinking about how literature began to act like emergent technological forms and instead turn our attention to the sensuous object of the book itself." -- -Dana Seitler University of Toronto Read more...

