Keith Williams

James Joyce and Cinematicity

Before and After Film

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Produktbeschreibung

'Williams explores the cinematicity of Joyce's writing not only as an expression of the 'Modernism' of contemporaneous film practices but also of long established media familiar to him from boyhood-shadow theatre, the kaleidoscope and stereoscope, chronophotography, panoramas and above all the magic lantern. A fascinating and thought-provoking study.' Jeremy Brooker, Chairman, Magic Lantern Society Investigates how the cinematic tendency of Joyce's writing developed from media predating film In this book, Keith Williams explores Victorian culture's emergent 'cinematicity' as a key creative driver of Joyce's experimental fiction, showing how Joyce's style and themes share the cinematograph's roots in Victorian optical entertainment and science. The book reveals Joyce's references to optical toys, shadowgraphs, magic lanterns, panoramas, photographic analysis and film peepshows. Close analyses of his works show how his techniques elaborated and critiqued their effects on modernity's 'media-cultural imaginary'. Keith Williams is Reader in English at the University of Dundee and Director of the Centre for Critical and Creative Cultures. Cover image: slide 6 of Love's Old Sweet Song (James Bamforth, set of 8 lantern slides, 1899). Private Collection; photo by Robert MacDonald. Reproduced by permission from Lucerna, the Magic Lantern Web Resource, www.slides.uni-trier.de Cover design: Richard Budd [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-0248-4 Barcode

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 604g
• ISBN-13: 9781474402484
• ISBN-10: 1474402488
• Artikelnr.: 43756537

Autorenporträt

Keith Williams is Reader in English at the University of Dundee and Director of the Centre for Critical and Creative Cultures. He has chaired the Scottish Word and Image Group and served on the executive board of the International Association of Word and Image Studies. He has published several books and many articles on literature and inter-mediality in the early twentieth century, especially on H.G. Wells and James Joyce.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. 'I Bar the Magic Lantern': Dubliners and Pre-Filmic Cinematicity
2. An Individuating Rhythm: Picturing Time in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
3. 'Building-Vision-Machine': Ulysses as Moving Panorama
Coda and Conclusions: Before and After Film
Visiography
Bibliography
Index.