The Modernist Exoskeleton : : Insects, War, Literary Form /

The Modernist Exoskeleton : : Insects, War, Literary Form / / Rachel Murray.

Argues for the importance of insects to modernism’s formal innovationsUses the idea of the insect as a key to modernist writers’ engagement with questions of politics, psychology, life, and literary formProvides in-depth analysis of lesser-known modernist narratives, such as H.D.’s Asphodel and Lewi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Murray, Rachel,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 14 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 SHELL BURSTS: WYNDHAM LEWIS
  • 2 FORMICATION: D. H. LAWRENCE
  • 3 COCOON STATES: H.D.
  • 4 LARVAL FORMS: SAMUEL BECKETT
  • CONCLUSION: ‘THINGS THAT WON’T QUITE FORMULATE'
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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