Affective Materialities : Reorienting the Body in Modernist Literature

Kara Watts

ISBN 10: 0813056284 / ISBN 13: 9780813056289

Edité par Longleaf Services On Behalf Of U Of Florida Press Apr 2019, 2019

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Neuware - Affective Materialities reads Modernist literature for the ways in which bodies come to matter physically, socially, and juridically using two recent turns in literary studies--one to affect, and, the other, to ecocriticism. The collection sets the stakes for how bodies merge with their surroundings or are recreated by them, into an amalgam of self and place, as ethical concern for social justice.

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• Titre: Affective Materialities : Reorienting the Body in Modernist Literature
• Éditeur: Longleaf Services On Behalf Of U Of Florida Press Apr 2019
• Date de parution: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0813056284
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780813056289
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 19 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 19 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 576 grammes

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Synopsis

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.

Contributors: Kara Watts Anna Christine Stuart Christie Karen Guendel Robin Hackett Molly Volanth Hall Cheryl Hindrichs William Kupinse Judith Paltin Kim Sigouin Kathryn Van Wert Mary Wood

À propos des auteurs

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.