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| | Eisenstein, Joyce, and the Gender Politics of English Literary Modernism |
 | | Of course, Eisenstein's interest in literature in general and in Joyce in particular is everywhere evident in his writings, and so I simply took note of his own suggestions for some kind of unified consideration of modernism and film. |
 | | To be sure, it was the case that already in the 1920s his name lent a certain air of legitimacy and definition to the new medium, at least as Eisenstein -- everywhere he went in Russia, Europe, and America, in avant-garde and other artistic, as well as educational, circles -- was proposing its development. |
 | | Literary critics, in effect absorbing Eisenstein's reaction to Joyce, have appropriated this pat and pristine moment as the archetypal gesture of a great modernist bestowing on an upstart cinema a blessing, an acknowledgement of a unifying resonance. |
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