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The Modernist Exoskeleton: Insects, War, Literary Form (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture) - Tapa blanda

Murray, Rachel

 
9781474458207: The Modernist Exoskeleton: Insects, War, Literary Form (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture)
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ISBN 10: 1474458203 ISBN 13: 9781474458207
Editorial: Edinburgh University Press, 2022

Sinopsis

Focusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations. Through a series of close readings, it proposes that the figure of the exoskeleton, which functions both as a protective outer layer and as a site of encounter, can enhance our understanding of modernism's engagement with nonhuman life, as well as its questioning of the boundaries of the human.

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Rachel Murray is lecturer in English at Loughborough University. She is the author of several book chapters and articles in refereed journals including ‘Insects in Language and Literature’, A Cultural History of Insects, eds. Gene Kritsky, Vazrick Nasari (Bloomsbury, 2019); ‘Beelines: Joyce’s Apian Aesthetics’, Humanities Special Issue: James Joyce, Animals, and the Non Human, Vol. 6, No. 2 (June 2017), pp. 1-14 and ‘Vermicular Origins: The Creative Evolution of Samuel Beckett’s Worm’ [Winner of the 2016 BSLS/JLS Early Career Essay Prize], Journal of Literature and Science, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2016), pp. 19-35.

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Argues for the importance of insects to modernism’s formal innovationsFocusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body – its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations. Through a series of close readings, it proposes that the figure of the exoskeleton, which functions both as a protective outer layer and as a site of encounter, can enhance our understanding of modernism’s engagement with nonhuman life, as well as its questioning of the boundaries of the human.Rachel Murray is a postdoctoral research fellow at Loughborough University.

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Edinburgh University Press
Año de publicación
2022
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ISBN 10 
1474458203
ISBN 13 
9781474458207
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Número de páginas
224
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