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2. Mortal Form: Still Life and Virginia Woolf ’s Other Elegiac Shapes
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: Reformulating Modernism 1
- 1. Plastic Form: Henry James’s Sculptural Aesthetics and Reading in the Round 18
- 2. Mortal Form: Still Life and Virginia Woolf ’s Other Elegiac Shapes 53
- 3. Protean Form: Erotic Abstraction and Ardent Futurity in the Poetry of Mina Loy 93
- 4. Bad Formalism: Evelyn Waugh’s Film Fictions and the Work of Art in the Age of Cinemechanics 135
- 5. Surface Forms: Photography and Gertrude Stein’s Contact History of Modernism 178
- Epilogue: The Consolations of Form 226
- Notes 231
- Bibliography 287
- Index 305
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- List of Illustrations vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction: Reformulating Modernism 1
- 1. Plastic Form: Henry James’s Sculptural Aesthetics and Reading in the Round 18
- 2. Mortal Form: Still Life and Virginia Woolf ’s Other Elegiac Shapes 53
- 3. Protean Form: Erotic Abstraction and Ardent Futurity in the Poetry of Mina Loy 93
- 4. Bad Formalism: Evelyn Waugh’s Film Fictions and the Work of Art in the Age of Cinemechanics 135
- 5. Surface Forms: Photography and Gertrude Stein’s Contact History of Modernism 178
- Epilogue: The Consolations of Form 226
- Notes 231
- Bibliography 287
- Index 305