The eye's mind
Subtitle: literary modernism and visual culture
By: Karen Jacobs.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Modernism and the body as afterimage; title: The eye's mind : self-detection in James's The sacred fount and Nabokov's The eye; title: Two mirrors facing : Freud, Blanchot, and the logic of invisibility; title: From "Spyglass" to "Horizon" : tracking the anthropological gaze in Zora Neale Hurston; title: One-eyed jacks and three-eyed monsters : visualizing embodiment in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man; title: Spectacles of violence, stages of art : Walter Benjamin and Virginia Woolf's dialectic; title: Modernist seductions : materializing mass culture in Nathanael West's The day of the locust; title: Postscript : From "Our glass lake" : photo/graphic memory in Nabokov's Lolita.