| Description |
1 online resource (234 pages) |
| Contents |
Front cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Recuperating the Animality of the Body; Chapter 1. Eroticism Pure and Impure: Deciphering the Body in "Possessions," "Voyages," and "The Wine Menagerie"; Chapter 2. Morton Minsky Reads The Bridge: "National Winter Garden" and the Meaning of Burlesque; Chapter 3. The Invented Indian of The Bridge: Hart Crane and the Ethnographic Idea of Culture; Chapter 4. The Animal in the Machine: The Technological Sublime and Corporeal Figuration in The Bridge; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Back cover |
| Summary |
The Machine That Sings examines the relationship between Crane's poetry and the widespread preoccupation with the animality of the body that helped define American modernism during the 1920s. Focusing on ''Voyages, '' ''The Wine Menagerie, '' ''Possessions, '' and The Bridge, Tapper argues that Crane's corporeal poetics are engaged in a dialogue with competing views of the body as, on one hand, a surface inscribed by history and, on the other, a source of renewal enabled by the recuperation of animality. & nbsp; By reading Crane alongside an array of cultural discourses--including sexology; ethnog |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203942963 |
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0203942965 |
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