Affective Materialities (eBook)

Reorienting the Body in Modernist Literature

Kara Watts, Molly Volanth Hall, Robin Hackett (Herausgeber)

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2019
274 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-5707-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Kara Watts is adjunct assistant professor of English at the University of La Verne. Molly Volanth Hall is lecturer in the Department of Literary Arts and Studies at Rhode Island School of Design. Robin Hackett, associate professor of English and women’s studies at the University of New Hampshire, is the author of Sapphic Primitivism: Productions of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Key Works of Modern Fiction.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.3.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Affect • Body • ecocritical • Ecocriticism • Ecology • ecology in literature • environmental • Gender and Sexuality • gendered studies • H.D. • Herbert Read • Human Experience • Humanities • janet frame • Literature and Science • Modern • modernism • Modernist Literature • New Materialism • Physical • Psychology • Queer • Virginia Woolf • Walt Whitman • William Carlos Williams
• ISBN-10: 0-8130-5707-8 / 0813057078
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-5707-1 / 9780813057071