The eye's mind
literary modernism and visual culture
Jacobs, Karen
1961-
creator
text
tu
Ithaca
Cornell University Press
2001
viii, 311 p. ; 24 cm.
Introduction : Modernism and the body as afterimage -- The eye's mind : self-detection in James's The sacred fount and Nabokov's The eye -- Two mirrors facing : Freud, Blanchot, and the logic of invisibility -- From "Spyglass" to "Horizon" : tracking the anthropological gaze in Zora Neale Hurston -- One-eyed jacks and three-eyed monsters : visualizing embodiment in Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- Spectacles of violence, stages of art : Walter Benjamin and Virginia Woolf's dialectic -- Modernist seductions : materializing mass culture in Nathanael West's The day of the locust -- Postscript : From "Our glass lake" : photo/graphic memory in Nabokov's Lolita.
Karen Jacobs.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-301) and index.
Literature, Modern
History and criticism
20th century
Modernism (Literature)
PN56.M54 .J33 2001
809/.9112
0801437490 (alk. paper)
0801486491 (pbk.)
DLC
101012
20140528153400.0
831