The Eye's Mind : Literary Modernism and Visual Culture

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Modernism and the Body as Afterimage -- PART I: THE EYE IN THE TEXT -- 2. The Eye's Mind: Self-Detection in James's The Sacred Fount and Nabokov's The Eye -- 3. Two Mirrors Facing: Freud, Blanchot, and the Logic of Invisib...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Modernism and the Body as Afterimage -- PART I: THE EYE IN THE TEXT -- 2. The Eye's Mind: Self-Detection in James's The Sacred Fount and Nabokov's The Eye -- 3. Two Mirrors Facing: Freud, Blanchot, and the Logic of Invisibility -- PART II: THE BODY VISIBLE IN THE LENS OF AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENCE -- 4. From "Spyglass" to "Horizon": Tracking the Anthropological Gaze in Zora Neale Hurston -- 5. One-Eyed Jacks and Three-Eyed Monsters: Visualizing Embodiment in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man -- PART III: AUDIENCE AND SPECTACLE -- 6. Spectacles of Violence, Stages of Art: Walter Benjamin and Virginia Woolf's Dialectic -- 7. Modernist Seductions: Materializing Mass Culture in Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust -- Postscript: From "Our Glass Lake" to "Hourglass Lake": Photo/graphic Memory in Nabokov's Lolita -- Bibliography -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung