They feel thought as immediately as a rose: modernism, philosophy and utopian collaborations / Gabriel Sessions.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Sessions, Gabriel, author.

Contributor:

Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 1949- degree supervisor.

Saint-Amour, Paul, degree supervisor.

Esty, Joshua, 1967- degree committee member.

University of Pennsylvania. Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, degree granting institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penn dissertations--Comparative Literature and Literary Theory.

Comparative Literature and Literary Theory--Penn dissertations.

Local Subjects:

Penn dissertations--Comparative Literature and Literary Theory.

Comparative Literature and Literary Theory--Penn dissertations.

Physical Description:

xlvii, 248 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm

Production:

[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania] : University of Pennsylvania, 2016.

Summary:

This dissertation revises Anglophone modernist studies' working conception of artistic collaboration. Existing or canonical readings take modernist literature's social dimension to be simply the coteries in which it was produced, or the homosocial relays of desire that animate its most famous scenes of joint writing (T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound's collaboration on The Waste Land for instance). This project, conversely, draws upon fields studying affect, sexuality, and embodiment emergent in the last twenty years to connect the intimacies of collaborative work to the sociality of collaborative actors on a larger scale. That is, it shows how the tensions and personal dynamics of what might seem a private site of aesthetic production between two or three people are actually proxy socialities for a larger imagined relation, one the modernist artists in question are striving to create between themselves and the mass population of the early twentieth-century nation state. Collaborations between queer subjects, between men and women, and between subjects of different levels of age and ability not only complicate the idea of modernism as an art of autonomous middle-class subjects. They also challenge, see outside of, or criticize liberal-progressive aspirations for national community, advanced in Great Britain and the United States, as collaboration philosophically suspends normative assumptions about the phenomenology of lived experience, and interposes alternative, utopian publics based on anti-liberal ideals of vulnerability, disability, or resistance to the future.

Notes:

Ph. D. University of Pennsylvania 2016.

Department: Comparative Literature and Literary Theory.

Supervisor: Jean-Michel Rabate; Paul Saint-Amour.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

982406066