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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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Cover; Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic; Copyright; Dedication; Preface: Disorientations; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: Disability, Modernism, and the Embodied Aesthetic; MEETING HAROLD RUSSELL; INVALID MODERNISM: AESTHETICS, DISABILITY, DIFFERENCE; BIOFUTURITIES; NEGATIVE INTERSECTIONALITY; CONCLUSION; 1: Invalid Modernism: A Diseased Aesthetic; THE PHARMAKON OF CONTAGION; AESTHETIC INVALIDISM: THE UNPRODUCTIVE LIFE; SIGNIFYING NOTHING; THE CONVALESCENT SUBLIME: THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN; ANAESTHETIC MODERNISM |
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2: "The Rage of Caliban": The Mirror of RecognitionTHE INFANTA VARIATIONS; THE TRAGEDY OF THE UGLY MAN; THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE; 3: Exquisite Corporeality: Detachable Bodies of the Avant-Garde; HEADLESSNESS; "AN END-RUN AROUND OEDIPUS": MARINETTI AND MAFARKA; DETACHABLE SENSATIONS: TRISTAN TZARA; FRIDA KAHLO: DETESTING SURREALISM; CONCLUSION: BECOMING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT; 4: "Every Man his Specialty": Beckett and the Dialectics of Dependency; "TO DECOMPOSE IS TO LIVE, TOO"; "WHAT A CURSE, MOBILITY!"; "NO MORE NATURE"; DEPENDENT RATIONAL ANIMALS |
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5: Pregnant Men: Biofuturity in Djuna Barnes and Virginia WoolfQUEER FUTURES AND THE REPRODUCTIVE HORIZON; "IMPERMISSIBLE BLOOD": NIGHTWOOD AND THE GENEALOGICAL IMPERATIVE; NAMING SICKNESS; LEGAL FICTIONS; 6: Uncanny Encounters: Dramas of Contingency in Modernism; FACES IN THE CROWD; AESTHETIC INVESTIGATIONS; EPIC IDENTIFICATIONS: FRANK NORRIS; THE "GHOST OF REASON": HENRY JAMES; AFFECTIVE HAUNTING: VIRGINIA WOOLF AND JEAN TOOMER; FEELING MODERN; 7: Missing Bodies: Disappearances in the Aesthetic; BECOMING ANIMAL: INDRA SINHA'SA NIMAL'S PEOPLE; MISSING PERSONS: AMANDA BAGGS' "IN MY LANGUAGE." |
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EXTENDING HOSPITALITY: RACHEL ZOLF, NEIGHBOUR PROCEDURELIVING SOCIAL DEATH: M. NOURBESE PHILIP, ZONG!; MISSING BODIES; 8: Cleavings: Critical Losses in the Politics of Deaf Gain; "I COULD NOT SEE TO SEE-"; "A PLANK IN REASON"; "INTERNAL DIFFERENCE"; SIDE EFFECTS; Works Cited; Index |
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Invalid Modernism contributes to an intersectional moment in disability studies by looking at modernist aesthetics through a 'defamiliar body'. It also offers an intersectional understanding of modernism by studying the representation of physical and cognitive difference during a period marked by progressive reforms in health, labor, and welfare. Readings of texts by Henry James, Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, Oscar Wilde, F.T. Marinetti, Jean Toomer, an opera by Alexander Zemlinsky, and paintings and constructions by dadaists and surrealists are set against the historical developments in sexology, medical discourse, and the pseudo-sciences of eugenics and anthropometry. 0Modernist works are well known for challenging formal features of narration and representation, but it is seldom observed that this challenge has often been enabled by figures of shell-shocked veterans, tubercular heroines, blind soothsayers, invalid aesthetes, and neurasthenic women. Such figures complicate an aesthetics of autonomy by which modernism is often understood. Since its evolution in the eighteenth century, aesthetics has been seen in terms of judgments based on detached0appreciation. What begins as a highly privative, sensate response to an object or natural formation results in a disinterested judgment about the value of that response. By looking at modernist aesthetics through a disability optic, Invalid Modernism attempts to restore the missing body to aesthetics by disclosing a structure of feeling around dramatic changes in modernity. These changes are registered on and through the bodies and minds of figures considered in medical discourse of the period as 'invalid' citizens and subjects |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 14, 2019) |
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People with disabilities and the arts.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Disabilities -- History
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People with disabilities -- History
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People with disabilities in literature.
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Disabilities in literature.
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Aesthetics.
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ART -- Performance.
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ART -- Reference.
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People with disabilities and the arts
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Aesthetics
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Disabilities
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Disabilities in literature
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Modernism (Literature)
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People with disabilities
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People with disabilities in literature
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192569189 |
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019256918X |
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9780191880476 |
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0191880477 |
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