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Bad modernisms / Douglas Mao & Rebecca L. Walkowitz, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--English-speaking countries.
- Modernism (Literature).
- American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (375 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Collection of essays on the ways in which modernist literature, film, and art transgressed the artistic and cultural norms we associate we "high" modernism.
- Contents:
- Introduction : modernisms bad and new / Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz
- Forced exile : Walter Pater's queer modernism / Heather K. Love
- The aftershocks of blast : manifestos, satire, and the rear-guard of modernism / Martin Puchner
- Nonsense modernism : the limits of modernity and the feelings of philosophy in Wittgenstein's Tractatus / Michael LeMahieu
- The romance of cliche : E.M. Hull, D.H. Lawrence, and interwar erotic fiction / Laura Frost
- Virginia Woolf's evasion : critical cosmopolitanism and British modernism / Rebecca L. Walkowitz
- Black venus, blonde venus / Sianne Ngai
- The black dandy as bad modernist / Monica L. Miller
- A shaman in common : Lewis, Auden, and the queerness of liberalism / Douglas Mao
- The gorgeous laughter of Filipino modernity : Carlos Bulosan's The laughter of my father / Joshua L. Miller
- Hit-man modernism / Lisa Fluet
- Cultures of impression / Jesse Matz.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-352) and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed July 26, 2022)
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-8782-4
- OCLC:
- 220950682
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