Film-Going and Film-Spectatorship: Association and Solitude
February 2019
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Chapter
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Modernist Communities across cultures and media
Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction
July 2018
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Book
Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. From Casanova to Benjamin Franklin to the Kardashians, individuals throughout history have recorded their own lives and experiences. These personal writings are central to the work of literary critics, philosophers, historians and psychologists, who have found in autobiographies from across the centuries not only an understanding of the ways in which lives have been lived, but the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a self in the world.
In this Very Short Introduction Laura Marcus defines what we mean by 'autobiography', and considers its relationship with similar literary forms such as memoirs, journals, letters, diaries, and essays. Analysing the core themes in autobiographical writing, such as confession, conversion and testimony; romanticism and the journeying self; Marcus discusses the autobiographical consciousness (and the roles played by time, memory and identity), and considers the relationship between psychoanalysis and autobiography. Exploring the themes of self-portraiture and performance, Marcus also discusses the ways in which fiction and autobiography have shaped each other.
Rhythm and the Measures of the Modern
January 2018
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Chapter
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Beyond the Victorian/Modernist Divide
‘”Some Ancestral Dread”: Woolf, Autobiography and the Question of “Shame”
June 2017
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Chapter
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Virginia Woolf and Heritage
The Rhythm of the Rails: Sound and Locomotion
March 2017
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Chapter
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Sounding Modernism
Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Rebecca West
January 2017
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Chapter
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The Cambridge History of Modernism
‘First World War Film and the Face of Death'
January 2017
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Chapter
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First World War: Literature, Culture, Modernity
‘Modernist Literature and Film’
January 2017
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Chapter
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Bloomsbury Companion to Modernist Literature
‘Enacting Holmes: Performance and Impersonation in Fiction and Film’
December 2016
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Chapter
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Sherlock Holmes, un nouveau limier pour le XXIe siècle : Du Strand Magazine au Sherlock de la BBC
Des premières adaptations pour l’écran muet jusqu’aux séries télévisées actuelles, entre réécritures et pastiches qui passent par le cinéma, la BD et la littérature, ce livre traque les formes esthétiques et les supports divers qui ont porté l’image protéiforme de Sherlock Holmes et du docteur Watson jusqu’à nous. Venu « d’un Londres de gaz et de bruine », Sherlock Holmes est bien, selon Borges, « une de ces bonnes manies qui nous restent ».
From The Grass is Singing to The Golden Notebook
October 2016
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Chapter
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Doris Lessing and the Forming of History
Introduction
October 2016
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Late Victorian Into Modern
The introduction to the volume points to the ways in which the chapters that follow address the relationship between late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature and culture. The intention of the volume has been to point up continuities between the two periods and thus to critique the existing models of radical rupture that have come to characterize modernist studies. The introduction also gives a detailed account of chapter contents within the sections of the volume: ‘Twilights’; ‘Making it New’; ‘Sites and Spaces of Knowledge’; ‘Minds and Bodies’; ‘Political and Social Selves’; ‘Authorship, Aesthetics and Print Cultures’; ‘Technologies’.
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Late Victorian into Modern
October 2016
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Book
The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate.
This volume opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions, some familiar and some more obscure, of late Victorian and modern literature and culture, primarily in British contexts. Late Victorian into Modern emphasises the in-between: the gradual changeover from one period to the next. The volume examines shared developments, points out continuities rather than ruptures, and explores and exploits an understanding of the late nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries as a cultural moment in which new knowledges were forming with particular speed and intensity. The organising principle of this book is to retain a key focus on literary texts, broadly understood to include familiar categories of genre as well as extra-textual elements such as press and publishing history, performance events and visual culture, while remaining keenly attentive to the inter-relations between text and context in the period. Individual chapters explore such topics as Celticism, the New Woman, popular fictions, literatures of empire, aestheticism, periodical culture, political formations, avant-garde poetics, and theatricality.
The Coming of Cinema
October 2016
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Chapter
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Late Victorian Into Modern
This volume opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions of late Victorian and modern literature and culture.
Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity
July 2016
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Book
The essays in Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, written by renowned international scholars, open up the many dimensions and arenas of modernist movement and movements: spatial, geographical and political: affective and physiological; temporal and epochal; technological, locomotive and metropolitan; aesthetic and representational. Individual essays explore modernism's complex geographies, focusing on Anglo-European modernisms while also engaging with the debates engendered by recent models of world literatures and global modernisms. From questions of space and place, the volume moves to a focus on movement and motion, with topics ranging from modernity and bodily energies to issues of scale and quantity. The final chapters in the volume examine modernist film and the moving image, and travel and transport in the modern metropolis. 'Movement is reality itself', the philosopher Henri Bergson wrote: the original and illuminating essays in Moving Modernisms point in new ways to the realities, and the fantasies, of movement in modernist culture.
'Experiments in form: modernism and autobiography in Woolf, Eliot, Mansfield, Lawrence, Joyce and Richardson'
April 2016
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A History of English Autobiography
Virginia Woolf's Short Stories
March 2016
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Chapter
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A Companion to Virginia Woolf
Cinematic and Televisual Fictions
February 2016
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Chapter
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The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 7: British and Irish Fiction Since 1940
The Short Fiction
January 2016
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Chapter
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A Companion to Virginia Woolf
This chapter examines the range of Virginia Woolf's short fiction noting that, for all its diversity and the indeterminacy of the short story genre, there are a number of identifiable strands running through the short fiction from the beginning to the close of Woolf's career. These strands include a focus on consciousness and perception, and the chapter looks in some detail at the relationship between the short fiction and the painting of the Bloomsbury artists, particularly Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry, with whom Woolf was most closely engaged. The chapter also examines the relationship between the short fiction and Woolf's novels.
Autobiography and Psychoanalysis
October 2015
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On Life-Writing
The Library in Film
June 2015
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Chapter
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The Meaning of the Library A Cultural History
Language Arts & Disciplines
The Optic of Mass Observation
January 2015
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Chapter
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Ethics of Alterity
‘The Optics of Mass-Observation’
January 2015
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Chapter
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Ethics of Alterity: Confrontation and Responsibility in (19- to (21st-Century British Arts
Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema
November 2014
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Book
Laura Marcus is one of the leading literary critics of modernist literature and culture. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema covers the period from around 1880 to 1930, when modernity as a form of social and cultural life fed into the beginnings of modernism as a cultural form. Railways, cinema, psychoanalysis and the literature of detection - and their impact on modern sensibility - are four of the chief subjects explored. Marcus also stresses the creativity of modernist women writers, including H. D., Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf. The overriding themes of this work bear on the understanding of the early twentieth century as a transitional age, thus raising the question of how 'the moderns' understood the conditions of their own modernity.
The writer in film: Authorship and imagination
June 2013
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Chapter
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The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship
‘The Death of Cinema and the Contemporary Novel’
January 2013
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Journal article
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Affirmations: of the Modern, Vol. 1, no. 1 (2013), pp. 160-177.
European Witness: Analysands Abroad in the 1920s and 1930s
November 2012
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Chapter
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History and Psyche
History and Psyche brings together some of the best work in this area, in essays by sixteen leading scholars including Lyndal Roper, Michael Roth, Luisa Passerini, Adam Phillips and Peter Burke.
History
Virginia Woolf and the Art of the Novel
January 2012
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Chapter
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A Contemporary Woolf
"The Tempo of Revolution": British Film Culture and Soviet Cinema in the 1920s
January 2012
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Chapter
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Russia in Britain: From Melodrama to Modernism
Virginia Woolf and digression: Adventures in consciousness
November 2010
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Chapter
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Digressions in European Literature: From Cervantes to Sebald
The Tenth Muse Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period
August 2010
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Book
[Robert Sherwood] depicted a lovely muse as a symbol of the new art of the
cinema: 'Apollo surveyed her; she was indeed comely, with a little of ... In no
uncertain terms the tenth muse spoke: '“I desire to break into the snobbish muse
colony”''.
Literary Criticism
Virginia Woolf as publisher and editor: The Hogarth Press
April 2010
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Chapter
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The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts
A Hymn to Movement: the ’city symphony’ in the 1920s
January 2010
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Journal article
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Modernist Cultures
Life-Writing
January 2010
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Chapter
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The Edinburgh Introductioni to Studying English Literature
‘Hieroglyphics in motion’: Representing ancient Egypt and the Middle East in film theory and criticism of the silent period
January 2010
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The Ancient World in Silent Cinema
In the film theory of recent decades, there has been strong interest in the graphic dimensions of cinematic representation, drawing in part on films of the silent period. In turning to early film and film aesthetics, critics have also pointed to the early twentieth-century understanding of cinema as a new ‘universal language’, frequently represented in the terms of a ‘hieroglyphics’ of cinematic representation. These preoccupations are central to a number of important studies by film theorists and historians, including Miriam Hansen and Michael Iampolski, and the films of D. W. Griffith play a crucial role in these contexts. Hansen’s Babel and Babylon: Spectatorship in American Silent Film (1991) places Griffith’s epic Intolerance (1916) at the heart of its arguments about early film, the immigrant culture of the USA, and the shaping of cinema spectatorship in relation to an expanded public sphere. Intolerance interweaves four narratives and spaces: ancient Babylon at the time of its overthrow by Cyrus the Persian; France in the sixteenth century, climaxing with the St Bartholomew’s Day massacre engineered by Catherine de Medici; Christ’s crucifixion; the narrative of ‘The Mother and the Law’ in the present day. The four stories are linked by the image of a woman (played by Lillian Gish) rocking a cradle, a visualisation of lines from Walt Whitman’s ‘Sea-Drift’: ‘Out of the cradle endlessly rocking. . . uniter of here and hereafter.’ In Griffith’s own account of Intolerance: ‘The purpose of the production is to trace a universal theme through various episodes of the race’s history. Ancient, sacred, medieval and modern times are considered. Events are not set forth in their historical sequence or according to the accepted forms of dramatic construction, but as they might flash across a mind seeking to parallel the life of the different ages.’
Cinema and Visual Culture: Close up 1927-1933
January 2009
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Chapter
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The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines, Vol. 1
Ian McEwan’s Modernist Time
January 2009
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Chapter
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Ian McEwan: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
The Creative Treatment of Actuality: John Grierson, Documentary Cinema and ’Fact’ in the 1930s
January 2009
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Chapter
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Intermodernism: Literary Culture in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
Pilgrimage and the Space of Dreams
January 2008
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Journal article
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Pilgrimages: Journal of Dorothy Richardson Studies
"In the circle of the lens": Virginia Woolf's "telescope" story, scene-making and memory
January 2008
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Journal article
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Journal of the Short Story in English
‘Pilgrimage and the Space of Dreams’ Pilgrimages: Journal of Dorothy Richardson Studies. 1.1 (2008), pp. 50-73. http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/en/richardson/pilgrimages/index.html
January 2008
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Journal article
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‘Pilgrimage and the Space of Dreams’ Pilgrimages: Journal of Dorothy Richardson Studies.
The Legacies of Modernism
April 2007
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Chapter
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The Cambridge Companion to the Modernist Novel
The novel is modernism's most vital and experimental genre. With a chronology and guide to further reading, this 2007 Companion is an accessible and informative overview of the genre.
Literary Criticism
autobiography and psychoanalysis
Chapter
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on life-writing
Before all, to make you see: Modernism’s Visual Turn
Conference paper
British Film Culture and Soviet Cinema in the 1920s
Conference paper
cinematic fictions
Chapter
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Oxford History of English Literature: 1940 to the Present
City symphonies’ in Modernist Literature and Film
Conference paper
Experiments in Form
Chapter
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Cambridge History of English Autobiography
Film, fiction and ’ the death of cinema’
Conference paper
Poetry into film speech: Documentary cinema, poetics and the literature of ’fact’ in the 1930s
Conference paper
The work of the hand: Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press
Conference paper
Viginia Woolf anf the Art of the Novel
Conference paper
Virginia Woolf’s Short Stories and the Art of Reflection
Conference paper
‘”A Hymn to Movement”: The “city symphony” in the 1920s’,, Volume 5, No. 1 2010, pp. 30-46.