The Machine that Sings

Modernism, Hart Crane and the Culture of the Body

Gordon A. Tapper (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-01161-8 (ISBN)

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Examining how Crane's corporeal aesthetic informs poems written across the span of his career, The Machine ThatSings focuses on four texts in which Crane's preoccupation with the body reaches its apoge. Tapper treats Voyages, The Wine Merchant, and Possessions as a triptych of erotic poems in which Crane plays out alternative resolutions to the dialectic between purity and defilement, a conceptual dynamic which Tapper argues is central to both Crane's poetics of difficulty and his representations of homosexual desire. Tapper concentrates on the three sections of The Bridge, most concerned with recuperating animality: 'National Winter Garden,' 'The Dance,' and 'Cape Hatteras.'

Gordon A. Tapper

Acknowledgments. Introduction: Recuperating the Animality of the Body 1. Eroticism Pure and Impure: Deciphering the Body in 'Possessions,' 'Voyages,' and 'The Wine Menagerie' 2. Morton Minsky Reads The Bridge: 'National Winter Garden' and the Meaning of Burlesque 3. The Invented Indian of The Bridge: Hart Crane and the Ethnographic Idea of Culture 4. The Animal in the Machine: The Technological Sublime and Corporeal Figuration in The Bridge. Notes. Works Cited. Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.5.2014
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Major Literary Authors
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	317 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-01161-4 / 1138011614
ISBN-13	978-1-138-01161-8 / 9781138011618
Zustand	Neuware