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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2010. Reconstructs the modernist invention of the "ideograph" (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) in relation to such other modern forms of writing as photography, phonography, cinematography, and telegraphy.
Full Description
Ideographic Modernism offers a critical account of the ideograph (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) as a modernist invention. Through analyses of works by Claudel, Pound, Kafka, Benjamin, Segalen, and Valery, among others, Christopher Bush traces the interweaving of Western modernity's ethnographic and technological imaginaries, in which the cultural effects of technological media assumed "Chinese" forms, even as traditional representations of "the Orient" lived on in modernist-era responses to media. The book also makes a methodological argument, demonstrating new ways of recovering the generally overlooked presence of China in the text of Western modernism.
Contents
Preface: Imperial Media/Imperial Messages: Modernism and the Myth of China ; Introduction: "no better instrument": The Chinese Written Character as a Medium ; 1. "visible nature": Image, Photography, and the Apparition of China ; 2. "simply the form": Inscription, Phonography, and the Chinese Scene of Writing ; 3. "to imitate the Chinese": Mimesis, Cinema, and Mechanical Reproduction ; 4. "shocks in China": Space, Telegraphy, and the Age of the World Picture ; Works Cited ; Index
