The essays brought together in this book understand phobia not as a pathology, but as a versatile moral, political, and aesthetic resource - and one with a history. They demonstrate that enquiry into strong feelings of aversion has enabled writers and film-makers to say and show things they could not otherwise have said or shown; and in this way to get profoundly and provocatively to grips with the modern condition.
Makes extensive reference to original readings of a wide range of literary texts and films, from the 1850s to the present
Places a strong emphasis on the value...
The essays brought together in this book understand phobia not as a pathology, but as a versatile moral, political, and aesthetic resource - and one w...
The period between the World Wars was one of the richest and most inventive in the long history of British literature. Interwar literature, David Trotter argues, stood apart by virtue of the sheer intelligence of the enquiries it undertook into the technological mediation of experience. After around 1925, literary works began to portray communication by telephone, television, radio, and sound cinema--and to examine the sorts of behavior made possible for the first time by virtual interaction. And they filled up, too, with the look, sound, smell, taste, and feel of the new synthetic and...
The period between the World Wars was one of the richest and most inventive in the long history of British literature. Interwar literature, David T...
This study revolutionises our understanding of both literary modernism and early cinema. Trotter draws on the most recent scholarship in English and film studies to demonstrate how central cinema as a recording medium was to Joyce, Eliot and Woolf, and how modernist were the concerns of Chaplin and Griffith. This book rewrites the cultural history of the early twentieth century, showing how film technology and modernist aesthetics combined to explore the limits of the human.
Offers major re-interpretations of key Modernist works, including Ulysses, The...
This study revolutionises our understanding of both literary modernism and early cinema. Trotter draws on the most recent scholarship in English and f...
