{"product_id":"the-k-effect-romanization-modernism-and-the-timing-and-spacing-of-print-culture-paperback-softback-9781531505080","title":"The K-Effect; Romanization, Modernism, and the Timing and Spacing of Print Culture (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531505080","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe K-Effect\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRomanization, Modernism, and the Timing and Spacing of Print Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristopher GoGwilt (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531505080\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 December 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages, 12 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.367 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe K-Effect\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the roman alphabet has functioned as a standardizing global model for modern print culture. Investigating the history and ongoing effects of romanization, Christopher GoGwilt reads modernism in a global and comparative perspective, through the works of Joseph Conrad and others. \u003cbr\u003e The book explores the ambiguous effect of romanized transliteration both in the service of colonization and as an instrument of decolonization. This simultaneously standardizing and destabilizing effect is abbreviated in the way the letter K indexes changing hierarchies in the relation between languages and scripts. The book traces this K-effect through the linguistic work of transliteration and its aesthetic organization in transnational modernism.\u003cbr\u003e The book examines a variety of different cases of romanization: the historical shift from Arabic script to romanized print form in writing Malay; the politicization of language and script reforms across Russia and Central Europe; the role of Chinese debates about romanization in shaping global transformations in print media; and the place of romanization between ancient Sanskrit models of language and script and contemporary digital forms of coding. Each case study develops an analysis of Conrad's fiction read in comparison with such other writers as James Joyce, Lu Xun, Franz Kafka, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer. \u003cbr\u003e The first sustained cultural study of romanization, \u003ci\u003eThe K-Effect\u003c\/i\u003e proposes an important new way to assess the multi-lingual and multi-script coordinates of modern print culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Conrad's \"timely appearance in English\" 1\u003cbr\u003e The K-effect, 6 • Conrad's \"timely appearance in English,\" 13 • The K-effect circa 1911, 21 •\u003cbr\u003e Overview of the Book, 25\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e The English Case of Romanization: From Conrad's \"blank space\" to Joyce's \"iSpace\" 31\u003cbr\u003e Defining Romanization: The Oxford English Dictionary and Joseph Conrad, 32 •\u003cbr\u003e Conrad's Accusative Case: Lord Jim and Nostromo, 51 • Joycean \"iSpace\"\u003cbr\u003e and the Conradian \"blank space,\" 59\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e The Russian Face of Romanization:\u003cbr\u003e The K in Conrad and Kafka 72\u003cbr\u003e Language, Script, and Reform in the Russian Empire, 77 •\u003cbr\u003e Under Western Eyes, A Personal Record, and \"Prince Roman,\" 83 •\u003cbr\u003e Kafka and Conrad: The Character and Function of K in Central Europe, 102\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e The Chinese Character of Romanization: Conrad and Lu Xun 117\u003cbr\u003e The Chinese Script Revolution and Romanization, 118 •\u003cbr\u003e Conrad's Chinese Characters: Almayer's Folly to Victory, 127 •\u003cbr\u003e Conrad and Lu Xun: The Interface of Chinese and Roman Characters, 144\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e Sanskritization, Romanization, Digitization 157 Sanskritization, 165 •\u003cbr\u003e Sanskritization and Romanization in the OED and in Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 174 •\u003cbr\u003e Digitization, 179\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e 191\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e 195\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003c\/i\u003e 217\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e 227\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676787831064,"sku":"9781531505080","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-k-effect-romanization-modernism-and-the-timing-and-spacing-of-print-culture-paperback-softback-9781531505080","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}