Rereading Modernist Postcards by Bradley D. Clissold HARDBACK 9781032457246

Rereading Modernist PostcardsCritical Studies in Materialist Recovery\nAuthor(s): Bradley D. Clissold\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032457246, 978-1032457246\nSynopsis\nInformed by both new and old media theory, materialist approaches to the study of everyday objects, and a series of close readings that chart the critical history of postcard use in the fiction and correspondence of Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, James Joyce, and Wilfred Owen, this book locates and attempts to rediscover lost, misplaced, and neglected postcard materialities, as they relate to the archiving, editing, publishing, and fictional repurposing of postcards across Anglo-American Literary Modernism [tel]. It argues that postcards need to be recognized as important early twentieth-century communication technologies and distinctly modernist textualities, composed of multimedia, rectoverso intertextualities. Moreover, their material limit4