Hieroglyphic Modernisms: Writing and New Media in the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9781474424776 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 272 str.

Jesse Schotter

Opis

Hieroglyphic Modernisms explores this conjunction of hieroglyphs and modernist fiction and film, revealing how the challenge of new media spurred a fertile interplay among practitioners of old and new media forms.

Spis treści

Introduction: A Hieroglyphic Civilization; Part I; 1. Misreading Egypt; 2. The Hieroglyphics of Character; 3. Sound Enclosures; Part II; 4. The ‘Essence’ of Egypt; 5. Solving the Problem of Babel; 6. Matrices and Metaverses; Coda: The Rosetta Stone; Bibliography.