Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic

Author:   Michael Davidson (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198832812


Pages:   222
Publication Date:   05 March 2019
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Michael Davidson (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.492kg
ISBN:  

9780198832812


ISBN 10:   0198832818
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   05 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Preface: Disorientations Introduction: Disability, Modernism, and the Embodied Aesthetic 1: Invalid Modernism: A Diseased Aesthetic 2: 'The Rage of Caliban': The Mirror of Recognition 3: Exquisite Corporeality: Detachable Bodies of the Avant-Garde 4: 'Every Man His Speciality': Beckett and the Dialectics of Dependence 5: Pregnant Men: Biofuturity in Djuna Barnes and Virginia Woolf 6: Uncanny Encounters: Dramas of Contingency in Modernism 7: Missing Bodies: Disappearances in the Aesthetic 8: Cleavings: Critical Losses in the Politics of Deaf Gain

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Michael Davidson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century, Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word, Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics, and Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics. His work in disability studies can be seen in Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body published by the University of Michigan Press. He is the editor of The New Collected Poems of George Oppen. He is the author of six books of poetry, the most recent of which is Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems from Coffee House Press.

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