Modernist Authenticities the Material Body and the Poetics of Amy Lowell and William Carlos Williams
'Modernist Authenticities' challenges current understandings of modernism by investigating modernist poetry's affinities with surfaces, performances, and materiality. Arguing that modernist writers reference the material body as a source of authenticity and anxiety, this study explore...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter
2014.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
American Studies - A Monograph Series ; v. 245. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47054220*spi |
| Sumario: | 'Modernist Authenticities' challenges current understandings of modernism by investigating modernist poetry's affinities with surfaces, performances, and materiality. Arguing that modernist writers reference the material body as a source of authenticity and anxiety, this study explores poetry in the context of somatic discourses. Reconsidering Amy Lowell's and William Carlos Williams's poetry, as well as texts by selected other authors, this book suggests that modernism operates with both essentialist and performative conceptions of authenticity. The study proposes that the expansion of the mo. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico (250 páginas) |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9783825374631 |
