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The ecology of modernism : American environments and avant-garde poetics /

"In The Ecology of Modernism, Joshua Schuster examines the relationships of key modernist writers, poets, and musicians to nature, industrial development, and pollution. He posits that that the curious failure of modernist poets to develop an environmental ethnic was a deliberate choice and not...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schuster, Joshua (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University Alabama Press, [2015]
Colección:Modern and contemporary poetics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: Conceptualizing Modernism's Ecologies
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Regeneration through Pollution
  • 1. Fables: On the Morals of Marianne Moore's Animal Monologues
  • 2. Ambience: How to Read Gertrude Stein's Natures
  • 3. Blues: Race and Environmental Distress in Early American Blues Music
  • 4. Traffic: Noise as an Ecological Aesthetic in the Art of John Cage
  • 5. Contaminated Life: Biopolitics after Rachel Carson
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Afterword: Where Is the Oil in Modernism?
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.