Christopher Bush

Ideographic Modernism

China, Writing, Media

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ideographic Modernism offers a critical account of the ideograph (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) as a modernist invention. Through analyses of works by Claudel, Pound, Kafka, Benjamin, Segalen, and Valery, among others, Christopher Bush traces the interweaving of Western modernity's ethnographic and technological imaginaries, in which the cultural effects of technological media assumed "Chinese" forms, even as traditional representations of "theOrient" lived on in modernist-era responses to media. The book also makes a methodological argument, demonstrating new ways of recovering the generally overlooked presence of China in the text of Western modernism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780199926602
• ISBN-10: 0199926603
• Artikelnr.: 35563306

Autorenporträt

Christopher Bush is Associate Professor of French and Program Director of Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface: Imperial Media/Imperial Messages: Modernism and the Myth of
China
* Introduction: "no better instrument": The Chinese Written Character
as a Medium
* 1. "visible nature": Image, Photography, and the Apparition of China
* 2. "simply the form": Inscription, Phonography, and the Chinese Scene
of Writing
* 3. "to imitate the Chinese": Mimesis, Cinema, and Mechanical
Reproduction
* 4. "shocks in China": Space, Telegraphy, and the Age of the World
Picture
* Works Cited
* Index