Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic

ISBN-13: 9780198832812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 224 str.

Michael Davidson

Opis

This volume studies a range of modernist works by writers such as Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and James Joyce to explore what Modernism looks like when viewed through the lens of disability.

O autorze

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.