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.
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Summary:"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, the volume proposes, may return to us notions of the feeling, material body that contemporary scholarship has lost touch with, bodies that suggest alternative relations to others and to the world. Contributors argue that modernist writers frequently bridge the dichotomy between body and world by portraying bodies that merge with or are re-created by their surroundings into an amalgam of self and place. Chapters focus on this treatment of the body through works by canonical modernists including William Carlos Williams, Virginia Woolf, and E.M. Forster alongside lesser-studied writers Janet Frame, Herbert Read, and Nella Larsen. Showing the ways the body in literature can be a lens for understanding the fluidities of race, gender, and sexuality, as well as species and subjectivity, this volume maps the connections among modernist aesthetics, histories of the twentieth-century body, and the concerns of modernism that can also speak to urgent concerns of today."--Provided by publisher
Physical Description:1 online resource (274 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780813057071

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