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Berman, Jessica Schiff, 1961- . Modernist fiction, cosmopolitanism, and the politics of community / Jessica Berman. [0521805899 ] Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PS374.M535 B47 2001
Call#: Van Pelt Library PS374.M535 B47 2001
1. Cosmopolitan communities;
2. Henry James:
i. 'The History of the Voice': Cosmopolitan's America;
ii. Feminizing the nation: woman as cultural icon in late James;
3. Marcel Proust:
i. Bernard Lazare and the politics of Pariahdom;
ii. The community, the prophet and the pariah in A la recherche du temps perdu;
4. Virginia Woolf:
i. 'Splinter' and 'Mosaic': towards the politics of connection;
ii. Of oceans and opposition: the action of The Waves;
5. Gertrude Stein:
i. Steinian topographies: the making of America;
ii. Writing the 'I' that is 'they': Gertrude Stein's community of the subject;
6. Conclusion.
2. Henry James:
i. 'The History of the Voice': Cosmopolitan's America;
ii. Feminizing the nation: woman as cultural icon in late James;
3. Marcel Proust:
i. Bernard Lazare and the politics of Pariahdom;
ii. The community, the prophet and the pariah in A la recherche du temps perdu;
4. Virginia Woolf:
i. 'Splinter' and 'Mosaic': towards the politics of connection;
ii. Of oceans and opposition: the action of The Waves;
5. Gertrude Stein:
i. Steinian topographies: the making of America;
ii. Writing the 'I' that is 'they': Gertrude Stein's community of the subject;
6. Conclusion.
Close up, 1927-1933 : cinema and modernism / edited by James Donald, Anne Friedberg, and Laura Marcus. [0691004625 (hardcover : alk. paper)] Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1998.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.A1 C63 1998
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.A1 C63 1998
Close Up, a film journal published in the years between 1927 and 1933, was the first English language journal dedicated to the cinema as an 'art.' It became the vanguard model for a certain type of writing about cinema. Close Up was the site of a range of speculations about film technology (its publication envelops the transition to sound), film style (its critics advocated a variety of national cinemas), and film subject matter (its editors fought against censorship of Soviet films and had a pioneering interest in, what they called, the 'Negro viewpoint' film.) Both critical and theoretical writing in the journal show an abiding concern with the experimental film, alternate forms of exhibition made possible by the cine-club and film-society movement, cinema as an educational tool, and serious theoretical writing (including numerous translations of articles by Eisenstein.) Many of the contributors to Close Up were writers who are known for their literary careers and not for their interest in cinema. Close Up published a strong contingent of literary women writing on cinema--H. D., Dorothy Richardson, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore. The journal also included pieces by a number of prominent psychoanalysts--Hanns Sachs, Barbara Low and the sexologist Havelock Ellis. POOL, the production company which published Close Up, also sponsored several film projects. H. D. and Kenneth Macpherson, the editor-in-chief, worked on at least three film projects together. The most ambitious, a feature-length film Borderline (1930), with Paul Robeson and H. D., displays the influence of Soviet montage theory, theories which Close Up had a central role in transmitting to English-speaking audiences.