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The Modernist Exoskeleton - Insects, War and Literary Form (Hardcover)
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The Modernist Exoskeleton - Insects, War and Literary Form (Hardcover)
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
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Argues for the importance of insects to modernism's formal
innovations Uses the idea of the insect as a key to modernist
writers' engagement with questions of politics, psychology, life,
and literary form Provides in-depth analysis of lesser-known
modernist narratives, such as H.D.'s Asphodel and Lewis's Snooty
Baronet, as well as new readings of canonical texts - including D.
H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Samuel Beckett's Trilogy
Explores the influence of popular scientific writing on modernist
aesthetics Reveals the attentiveness of modernist writers to
nonhuman life, thus forging new lines of connection between
modernism and literary animal studies Focusing on the writing of
Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book
uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of
the insect body - its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth
and swarming formations. Through a series of close readings, it
proposes that the figure of the exoskeleton, which functions both
as a protective outer layer and as a site of encounter, can enhance
our understanding of modernism's engagement with nonhuman life, as
well as its questioning of the boundaries of the human.
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