The Modernist Corpse : Posthumanism and the Posthumous /
An unconventional take on the corpse challenges traditional conceptions of who-and what-counts as human, while offering bold insights into the modernist projectToo often regarded as the macabre endpoint of life, the corpse is rarely discussed and largely kept out of the public eye. InThe Modernist C...
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Minneapolis :
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2017.
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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.
