Automatic : literary modernism and the politics of reflex /

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Analyzing such thinking through a neglected archive about embodiment and reflex reveals modernists responding to the historically novel conditions of political life in the twentieth century--conditions that have become entrenched in the politics of our own century.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wientzen, Timothy, 1981- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Series:Hopkins studies in modernism.
Subjects:
1900-1999
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Conditioned response in literature.
Politics and literature.
Literature and society.
Society in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature)
Réflexe conditionné dans la littérature.
Politique et littérature.
Littérature et société.
Society in literature
Conditioned response in literature
English literature
Literature and society
Politics and literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Automatic Man: A Genealogy
  • 2. Vibrant Bodies, Automatic Minds: Vitalism, D.H. Lawrence, and the Politics of Spontaneity
  • 3. Public Reflex: Wyndham Lewis, Public Relations, and the Invisible Government
  • 4. Pavlovian Nationalism: Rebecca West's Reflex Communities
  • 5. Higher Degrees of Automaticity: Habitus, Samuel Beckett, and Late Modernism.

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