Douglas Mao / Rebecca Walkowitz

Bad Modernisms

Herausgeber: Mao, Douglas; Walkowitz, Rebecca L

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Collection of essays on the ways in which modernist literature, film, and art transgressed the artistic and cultural norms we associate we "high" modernism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 165mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337843
• ISBN-10: 0822337843
• Artikelnr.: 21648898

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Modernisms Bad and New / Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz
1
Forced Exile: Walter Pater’s Queer Modernism / Heather K. Love 19
The Aftershocks of Blast: Manifestos, Satire, and the Rear-Guard of
Modernism / Martin Puchner 44
Nonsense Modernism: The Limits of Modernity and the Feelings of Philosophy
in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus / Michael LeMahieu 68
The Romance of Cliche: E.M. Hull, D.H. Lawrence, and Interwar Erotic
Fiction / Laura Frost 94
Virginia Woolf’s Evasion: Critical Cosmopolitanism and British Modernism /
Rebecca L. Walkowitz 119
Black Venus, Blonde Venus / Sianne Ngai 145
The Black Dandy as Bad Modernist / Monica L. Miller 179
A Shaman in Common: Lewis, Auden, and the Queerness of Liberalism / Douglas
Mao 206
The Gorgeous Laughter of filipino Modernity: Carlos Bulosan’s The Laughter
of My Father / Joshua L. Miller 238
Hit-Man Modernism / Lisa Fluet 269
Cultures of Impression / Jesse Matz 298
Bibliography 331
Notes on Contributors 353
Index 355