The modernist corpse : posthumanism and the posthumous /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Edwards, Erin E. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Dead in literature. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. American literature. 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: a modernist body count
Inhuman remains: the production and decomposition of the human in William Faulkner's south
Autopsy-optics: Jean Toomer's Cane through the photographic lens
Sutures and grooves: Mina Loy, Baroness Elsa, and the corpus of early-twentieth-century media
Love and corpses: Djuna Barnes's queer posthumanism
Coda. in kind cuts: Gertrude Stein's tender buttons and the nonhuman corpse.