Modernism at the beach : queer ecologies and the coastal commons /
"At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. An unruly and...
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| Formáid: | Licensed eBooks |
| Teanga: | Béarla |
| Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: |
New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2023]
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| Sraith: | Modernist latitudes.
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| Rochtain ar líne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/free19708 |
| Achoimre: | "At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. An unruly and elusive confluence of human and more-than-human forces, the seashore is also a space of performance—a stage for loosely scripted, improvisatory forms of embodiment and togetherness. The beach, Hannah Freed-Thall argues, was to the modernist imagination what mountains were to Romanticism: a space not merely of anthropogenic conquest but of vital elemental and creaturely connection. With an eye to the peripheries of capitalist leisure, Freed-Thall recasts familiar seaside practices—including tide-pooling, beachcombing, gambling, and sunbathing—as radical experiments in perception and sociability. Close readings of works by Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Claude McKay, Samuel Beckett, Rachel Carson, and Gordon Matta-Clark, among others, explore the modernist beach as a queer refuge, a precarious commons, a scene of collective exhaustion and endurance, and a visionary threshold at the end of the world. Interweaving environmental humanities, queer and feminist theory, and cultural history, Modernism at the Beach offers new ways of understanding twentieth-century literature and its relation to ecological thought."-- |
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| Cur síos fisiciúil: | 1 online resource (ix, 275 pages) : illustrations. |
| Leabharliosta: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0231551975 9780231551977 9780231197083 9780231197090 |