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The modernist exoskeleton: insects, war, literary form
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posted on 2020-07-16, 12:38 authored by Rachel MurrayFocusing 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.
History
Department
- English and Drama
Pages
224Publisher
Edinburgh University PressVersion
- P (Proof)
Rights holder
© Rachel MurrayPublication date
2020-04-21Copyright date
2020ISBN
9781474458191; 147445819X; 978147445822; 9781474458214Book series
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist CultureLanguage
- en