Modernist objects /
Modernist Objects is a unique mix of cultural studies, literature and visual arts applied to the discrete materiality of modernist objects. Contributors explore the many tensions surrounding the modernist relationship to objects, things, products and artIfacts through the prism of poetry, prose, vis...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Clemson, South Carolina :
Clemson University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Seminal modernisms.
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Table of Contents:
- OBJECTING TO REALISM. Douglas Mao: Objectionable Objects
- Martin Schauss: "Such density of furniture defeats imagination": Beckett's Post-War Room and the Inheritance of Things
- Pavlina Radia: From Eggbeaters and Alcohol to Gryphons, Dolls, and Puppets: The Affective Mobilities of Djuna Barnes's Objects
- Rachel Bowlby: Tradition and the Test-Tube Baby
- FASHIONING THE HUMAN. Sanja Bahun: The Fabric of Home: Cotton Cloth between Ontology and Use-Value in Paul Klee's, Varvara Stepanova and Lyubov Popova's Artwork
- Louise Kane: Computer Science for (Live) Modernism(s): Magazines as Metaobjects
- Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec: "Twang the lyre and rattle the lexicon": Harps and Lyres in Modernist Poetry
- Lynn M. Somers: Louise Bourgeois's Melancholy Objects to be Used
- PERFORMING THE ORNAMENTAL. Yasna Bozhkova: Limbswish: Baroness Elsa's "Ready-to-Wear" Poem-Objects
- Maurizia Boscagli: The Furniture of Alter-Modernism: Eileen Gray's and Le Corbusier's Two Orientalisms
- Nonia Williams: "LOST! HANSOME GOLE BROOCH." Broken, Lost and Forgotten Objects in Woolf, Mansfield and Stein
- Justine Baillie: Diasporic Modernism: Memory, the Object and Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight (1939)