Networks of modernism
Subtitle: reorganizing American narrative
By: Wesley Beal
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781609383510; 9781609383527
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); History and criticism; American literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-164) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Networks and the cultural logic of modernism; title: In lieu of a manifesto: Randolph Bourne's "trans-national America" as an origin of network aesthetics; title: Network form as network politics in Jean Toomer's Cane; title: Public spaces and distributed settings in Anita Loos's Gentlemen prefer blondes; title: Schisms: form and content, space and history in John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy; title: Nathanael West's crowds and the closure of modern network aesthetics.