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Informationen zum Autor Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, eds. Klappentext Extending the "new modernist studies", teases out the contradictions inherent in modernism's commitment to badness: its emphasis on outrageous behaviour, its elevation of negativity, its refusal to be condoned Zusammenfassung At the dawn of the twenty-first century! poets and architects! designers and critics! teachers and thinkers are rediscovering the virtues of the previous century's energetic cultural constellation. This book teases out the contradictions inherent in modernism's commitment to badness. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
