Automatic - Literary Modernism and the Politics of Reflex

"Reconstructing a vast archive of writing about reflex behaviors, this book demonstrates the ways in which a "politics of reflex" came to shape the intellectual and cultural life of the modernist era"--

About the author

Timothy Wientzen is an associate professor of English at Skidmore College.

Summary

Analyzing such thinking through a neglected archive about embodiment and reflex reveals modernists responding to the historically novel conditions of political life in the twentieth century-conditions that have become entrenched in the politics of our own century.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Wientzen, Timothy (Skidmore College) Wientzen
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781421440873
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4087-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary theory, History of the Americas, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000