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Automatic : literary modernism and the politics of reflex / Timothy Wientzen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wientzen, Timothy, 1981- author.
- Series:
- Hopkins studies in modernism
- Hopkins studies in Modernism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Conditioned response in literature.
- Politics and literature.
- Literature and society.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Reconstructing a vast archive of writing about reflex behaviors, this book demonstrates the ways in which a "politics of reflex" came to shape the intellectual and cultural life of the modernist era"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Automatic Man: A Genealogy
- 2. Vibrant Bodies, Automatic Minds: Vitalism, D. H. Lawrence, and the Politics of Spontaneity
- 3. Public Reflex: Wyndham Lewis, Public Relations, and the Invisible Government
- 4. Pavlovian Nationalism: Rebecca West's Reflex Communities
- 5. Higher Degrees of Automaticity: Habitus, Samuel Beckett, and Late Modernism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-248) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781421440873
- 1421440873
- 9781421440880
- 1421440881
- OCLC:
- 1237750076
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