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Modernist Fiction And News: Representing Experience In The Early Twentieth Century, David Rando
Modernist Fiction And News: Representing Experience In The Early Twentieth Century, David Rando
David P. Rando
Modernist Fiction and News characterizes modernism in terms of its intimate, creative, and experimental relationship with a newly reorganized and rapidly expanding news industry. Writers such as Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, and Virginia Woolf engage with the discourse and narratives of the news in order to establish an experimental space in which to represent experience with the hope of greater immediacy and faithfulness to reality.
European Joyce Studies 21: Joyce, Benjamin And Magical Urbanism [Review], David Rando
European Joyce Studies 21: Joyce, Benjamin And Magical Urbanism [Review], David Rando
David P. Rando
This collection marks a major chapter in the ongoing belated encounter between James Joyce and the German Jewish philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin. In the 1930s, both writers lived in Paris and shared a veritable Venn diagram of overlapping friends and acquaintances—Adrienne Monnier, Sylvia Beach, Stuart Gilbert, and Gisèle Freund, to name a few—but apparently never met each other. As Heyward Ehrlich reports in this volume, Benjamin heard the story of Joyce’s infamous meeting with Marcel Proust through Monnier and Léon-Paul Fargue (192), which, in the version that William Carlos Williams told, anticlimactically consisted of the writers complaining about …
Storytelling And Alienated Labor: Joyce, Benjamin, And The Narrative Wording Class, David Rando
Storytelling And Alienated Labor: Joyce, Benjamin, And The Narrative Wording Class, David Rando
David P. Rando
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