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The Death of the Book This content downloaded from 59.120.225.187 on Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:14:50 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 59.120.225.187 on Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:14:50 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms The Death of the Book modernist novels and the time of reading John Lurz fordham university press New York 2016 This content downloaded from 59.120.225.187 on Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:14:50 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms this book is made possible by a collaborative grant from the andrew w. mellon foundation. Copyright © 2016 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Excerpt(s) from Jazz by Toni Morrison, 1992 by Toni Morrison. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved. Any third party use of this material, outside of this publication, is prohibited. Interested parties must apply directly to Penguin Random House LLC for permission. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Visit us online at www.fordhampress.com. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Lurz, John, author. Title: The death of the book : modernist novels and the time of reading / John Lurz. Description: First edition. | New York : Fordham University Press, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015035229 | ISBN 9780823270972 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780823270989 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Modernism (Literature) | Books and reading. Classification: LCC PN56.M54 L87 2016 | DDC 809/.9112—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015035229 Printed in the United States of America 18 17 16 5 4 3 2 1 First edition This content downloaded from 59.120.225.187 on Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:14:50 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms To my parents (who else?) This content downloaded from 59.120.225.187 on Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:14:50 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 59.120.225.187 on Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:14:50 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms contents Introduction: Opening the Book 1 1. The Books of the Recherche 25 2. The Reader of Ulysses 55 3. The Dark Print of Finnegans Wake 81 4. The Pages in Jacob’s Room 107 5. The Binding of The Waves 135 Coda: The Afterlives of Reading 163 Acknowledgments 171 Notes 173 Bibliography 185 Index 197 This content downloaded from 59.120.225.187 on Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:17:02 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 59.120.225.187 on Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:17:02 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms “. . . . look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.” Toni Morrison, Jazz This content downloaded from 59.120.225.187 on Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:17:02 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 59.120.225.187 on Tue, 11 Aug 2020 09:17:02 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms
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