From Library Journal
In her first book, Jacobs (English, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder) expands on a new area of interpreting Modernist literature. She analyzes the act of viewing in Modernist texts. Using examples from Virginia Woolf, Maurice Blanchot, and others, she demonstrates how this movement is unique in its distrust of omniscient narrators. Jacobs examines contemporary innovations photography and film, anthropological and sociological observation techniques, and psychoanalysis and "skeptical philosophy" and illustrates how they affected the selected texts. Her selections from U.S., British, and French writing, both literary and nonliterary, are unconventional, and her argument for choosing them is not thoroughly expressed. The book is well researched, with extensive notes, but the writing is uneven. While the discussion of the selected texts is clear and thoughtful, the introduction is dense and indirect. Recommended only for academic libraries. Paolina Taglienti, Long Island Univ., Brooklyn, NY
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, July 2001, Vol. 38, No. 11
Jacobs presents a fresh analysis of impact of visual culture on modernist literature. [Her] focused argument is impressive and refreshing.
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