Douglas Mao / Rebecca Walkowitz

Bad Modernisms

Herausgeber: Mao, Douglas; Walkowitz, Rebecca L

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 160mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337973
• ISBN-10: 0822337975
• Artikelnr.: 21878324

Autorenporträt

Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz, eds.

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