Literary Impressionism

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"With its new innovations in the visual arts, cinema and photography as well as the sciences of memory and perception, the early twentieth century saw a crisis in the relationship between what was seen and what was known. Literary Impressionism charts that modernist crisis of vision and the way that literary impressionists such as Dorothy Richardson, Ford Madox Ford, H.D., and May Sinclair used new concepts of memory in order to bridge the gap between perception and representation. Exploring the fiction of these four major writers as well as their journalism, manifesto writings, letters and diaries from the archives, Rebecca Bowler charts the progression of modernism's literary aesthetics and the changing role of memory within it."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

subjects: Richardson, dorothy miller, 1873-1957,  Ford, ford madox, 1873-1939,  English literature, history and criticism, 20th century,  Memory in literature,  Modernism (literature),  American literature, history and criticism, 20th century,  English literature,  History and criticism,  Impressionism in literature,  Visual perception in literature,  American literature,  Criticism and interpretation,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,  Women Authors