Hart Crane's queer modernist aesthetic /
Through close readings of a wide range of his poems, prose, letters and manuscripts, this book shows how Hart Crane created an alternative form of literary modernism, queering modernist experience. It goes beyond representations of sexuality in the texts to show how Crane employs queerness as an int...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Relationality. 1. American Decadence and the Creation of a Queer Modernist Aesthetic
- 2. Abstraction and Intersubjectivity in White Buildings
- 3. Spatiality, Movement, and the Logic of Metaphor
- 4. Temporality, Futurity, and the Body
- 5. Empiricism, Mysticism, and a Queer Form of Knowledge
- 6. Queer Technology, Failure, and a Return to the Hand
- Conclusion: Towards a Queer Community
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.