Affective Materialities : Reorienting the Body in Modernist Literature /

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"Affective Materialities reexamines modernist theorizations of the body and opens up the artistic, political, and ethical possibilities at the intersection of affect theory and ecocriticism, two recent directions in literary studies not typically brought into conversation. Modernist creativity,...

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Other Authors: Hackett, Robin, 1963- (Editor), Hall, Molly Volanth (Editor), Watts, Kara (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Literatur
Körper > Motiv
Englisch
Ecocriticism
Modernism (Literature)
Literature and science.
English literature.
Ecology in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Affect (Psychology)
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Écocritique.
Litterature et sciences.
Litterature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Litterature)
English literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Into the ether: an invitation to bodily reorientations / Molly Volanth Hall and Kara Watts
  • Flesh over granite: Walt Whitman's embodied presence in William Carlos Williams's "History" / Karen Guendel
  • E.M. Forster among the ruins / Stuart Christie
  • "'I'm not sick, ' I said. 'I'm wounded'": disrupting wounded masculinity through the lyrical spaces of war / Cheryl Hindrichs
  • Frustrated energies in modernism's female arrangements / Judith Paltin
  • "Things were in people, people were in things": language, ecology, and the body in H.D. / Kim Sigouin
  • Cold crystal: the ecology of affect in Herbert Read's The green child / William Kupinse
  • "I wanna be your puppy": Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and the queer cute body / Anna Christine
  • The brain and the living world in Janet Frame's Faces in the water / Mary Elene Wood
  • "Becoming animal, becoming other": modernism, millennial jurisprudence, and the limits of materialist subjectivity / Kathryn Van Wert
  • Black girls and lady police: blank affect and the ecology of the gym / Robin Hackett.

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