Hart Crane's Queer Modernist Aesthetic [electronic resource] /
Munro, N.author.
Hart Crane's Queer Modernist Aesthetic argues that the aspects of experience which modernists sought to interrogate - time, space, and material things - were challenged further by Crane's queer poetics. Reading Crane alongside contemporary queer theory shows how he creates an alternative form of modernism.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hart Crane's Queer Modernist Aesthetic argues that the aspects of experience which modernists sought to interrogate - time, space, and material things - were challenged further by Crane's queer poetics. Reading Crane alongside contemporary queer theory shows how he creates an alternative form of modernism.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Relationality -- 1. American Decadence and the Creation of a Queer Modernist Aesthetic -- 2. Abstraction and Intersubjectivity in White Buildings -- 3. Spatiality, Movement, and the Logic of Metaphor -- 4. Temporality, Futurity, and the Body -- 5. Empiricism, Mysticism, and a Queer Form of Knowledge -- 6. Queer Technology, Failure, and a Return to the Hand -- Conclusion: Towards a Queer Community -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Crane, Hart, 1899-1932
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
America-Literatures.
Poetry.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
North American Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.