The Modernist Corpse : Posthumanism and the Posthumous /

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An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who-and what-counts as human, while offering bold insights into the modernist projectToo often regarded as the macabre endpoint of life, the corpse is rarely discussed and largely kept out of the public eye. InThe Modernist C...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards, Erin E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dead in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Morts dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a modernist body count
  • Inhuman remains: the production and decomposition of the human in William Faulkner's south
  • Autopsy-optics: Jean Toomer's Cane through the photographic lens
  • Sutures and grooves: Mina Loy, Baroness Elsa, and the corpus of early-twentieth-century media
  • Love and corpses: Djuna Barnes's queer posthumanism
  • Coda. in kind cuts: Gertrude Stein's tender buttons and the nonhuman corpse.

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