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Author:
Edwards, Erin E., author.
Title:
The modernist corpse : posthumanism and the posthumous / Erin E. Edwards.
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xii, 227 pages: illustration; 23 cm
Subject:
Dead in literature.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American literature.
Dead in literature.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN:
1517901286
9781517901288
1517901278
9781517901271
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1004957023
LCCN:
2017005469
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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