Filthy Material

Release on by Chris Forster
Filthy Material

Author: Chris Forster

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780190840891

Category: Performing Arts

Page: 336

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Modernist literature is inextricable from the history of obscenity. The trials of figures like James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Radclyffe Hall loom large in accounts twentieth century literature. Filthy Material: Modernism and The Media of Obscenity reveals the ways that debates about obscenity and literature were shaped by changes in the history of media. Judgments about obscenity, which hinged on understanding how texts were circulated and read, were often proxies for the changing place of literature in an age of new technological media. The emergence of film, photography, and new printing technologies shaped how literary value was understood, altering how obscenity was defined and which texts were considered obscene. Filthy Material rereads the history of obscenity in order to discover a history of technological media behind debates about moral corruption and sexual explicitness. The shift from the intense censorship of the early twentieth century to the effective 'end of obscenity' for literature at the middle of the century, it argues, is not simply a product of cultural liberalization but of a changing media ecology. Filthy Material brings together media theory and archival research to offer a fresh account of modernist obscenity and novel readings of works of modernist literature. It sheds new light on figures at the center of modernism's obscenity trials (such as Joyce and Lawrence), demonstrates the relevance of the discourse obscenity to understanding figures not typically associated with obscenity debates (like T. S. Eliot and Wyndham Lewis), and introduces new figures to our account of modernism (like Norah James and Jack Kahane). It reveals how modernist obscenity reflected a contest over the literary in the face of new media technologies.
Performing Arts
Filthy Material
Language: en
Pages: 336

Filthy Material

Authors: Chris Forster
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-15 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

Modernist literature is inextricable from the history of obscenity. The trials of figures like James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Radclyffe Hall loom large in accounts twentieth century literature. Filthy Material: Modernism and The Media of Obscenity reveals the ways that debates about obscenity and literature were shaped by changes
Filthy Material
Language: en
Pages: 232

Filthy Material

Authors: Chris Forster
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-12 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Modernist literature is inextricable from the history of obscenity. The trials of figures like James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Radclyffe Hall loom large in accounts twentieth century literature. Filthy Material: Modernism and The Media of Obscenity reveals the ways that debates about obscenity and literature were shaped by changes
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Language: en
Pages: 422

Print Culture and the First Yoruba Novel

Authors: Isaac Babalọla Thomas
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-05-25 - Publisher: BRILL

This volume presents an edition and translation of I.B. Thomas's pioneering work, "The Life-Story of Me, Segilola", first published as a series of realistic letters to a local Lagos newspaper in 1929-30, but now acclaimed as the first Yoruba novel.
Commission on Noxious Printed and Pictured Material
Language: en
Pages: 160

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Authors: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Categories: Pornography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1960 - Publisher:

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Language: en
Pages: 80

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Authors: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism
Categories: Child abuse
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985 - Publisher:

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