Hart Crane''s Queer Modernist Aesthetic

Informationen zum Autor Niall Munro is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Klappentext Hart Crane's Queer Modernist Aesthetic argues that the aspects of experience which modernists sought to interrogate - time, space, and material things - were challenged further by Crane's queer poetics. Reading Crane alongside contemporary queer theory shows how he creates an alternative form of modernism. Zusammenfassung Hart Crane's Queer Modernist Aesthetic argues that the aspects of experience which modernists sought to interrogate – time, space, and material things – were challenged further by Crane's queer poetics. Reading Crane alongside contemporary queer theory shows how he creates an alternative form of modernism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Relationality 1. American Decadence and the Creation of a Queer Modernist Aesthetic 2. Abstraction and Intersubjectivity in White Buildings 3. Spatiality, Movement, and the Logic of Metaphor 4. Temporality, Futurity, and the Body 5. Empiricism, Mysticism, and a Queer Form of Knowledge 6. Queer Technology, Failure, and a Return to the Hand Conclusion: Towards a Queer Community Notes Bibliography Index

List of contents

Introduction: Relationality 1. American Decadence and the Creation of a Queer Modernist Aesthetic 2. Abstraction and Intersubjectivity in White Buildings 3. Spatiality, Movement, and the Logic of Metaphor 4. Temporality, Futurity, and the Body 5. Empiricism, Mysticism, and a Queer Form of Knowledge 6. Queer Technology, Failure, and a Return to the Hand Conclusion: Towards a Queer Community Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: N Munro, N. Munro
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349488247
• ISBN: 978-1-349-48824-7
• No. of pages: 231
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), B, Kulturwissenschaften, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, Poetry, Literary theory, North America (USA and Canada), Culture—Study and teaching, Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, America—Literatures, North American Literature, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets