TY - GEN T1 - Modernism at the beach : queer ecologies and the coastal commons T2 - Modernist latitudes. A1 - Freed-Thall, Hannah LA - English PP - New York PB - Columbia University Press YR - 2023 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1344495260 AB - "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."-- OP - 275 CN - PN56.B34 F74 2023 SN - 0231551975 SN - 9780231551977 SN - 9780231197083 SN - 9780231197090 KW - Beaches in literature. KW - Seashore in literature. KW - Literature, Modern : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Queer theory. KW - Ecocriticism. KW - Plages dans la littérature. KW - Rivage dans la littérature. KW - Littérature : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Modernisme (Littérature) KW - Théorie queer. KW - Écocritique. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century . KW - Beaches in literature KW - Ecocriticism KW - Literature, Modern KW - Queer theory KW - Seashore in literature KW - 1900-1999 KW - Electronic books. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Literary criticism KW - Literary criticism. KW - Critiques littéraires. ER -