TY - BOOK AU - Freed-Thall,Hannah TI - Modernism at the beach: queer ecologies and the coastal commons T2 - Modernist Latitudes SN - 0231551975 AV - PN56.B34 F74 2023 U1 - 809/.9336 23/eng/20220914 PY - 2023///] CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - Beaches in literature KW - Seashore in literature KW - Literature, Modern KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Queer theory KW - Ecocriticism KW - Plages dans la litt�erature KW - Rivage dans la litt�erature KW - Litt�erature KW - 20e si�ecle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Modernisme (Litt�erature) KW - Th�eorie queer KW - �Ecocritique KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Literary criticism KW - lcgft KW - Critiques litt�eraires KW - rvmgf N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Beach Effect -- 1. Proust's Leap -- 2. Intertidal Woolf -- 3. Carson's Quiet Bower -- 4. McKay's Dream Port -- 5. Tidewrack, Beckett to Sunde -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index N2 - "At the beach, bodies converge with the elements and strange treasures come to light. Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, this book makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. An unruly and elusive confluence of human and more-than-human forces, the seashore is also a space of performance—a stage for loosely scripted, improvisatory forms of embodiment and togetherness. The beach, Hannah Freed-Thall argues, was to the modernist imagination what mountains were to Romanticism: a space not merely of anthropogenic conquest but of vital elemental and creaturely connection. With an eye to the peripheries of capitalist leisure, Freed-Thall recasts familiar seaside practices—including tide-pooling, beachcombing, gambling, and sunbathing—as radical experiments in perception and sociability. Close readings of works by Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Claude McKay, Samuel Beckett, Rachel Carson, and Gordon Matta-Clark, among others, explore the modernist beach as a queer refuge, a precarious commons, a scene of collective exhaustion and endurance, and a visionary threshold at the end of the world. Interweaving environmental humanities, queer and feminist theory, and cultural history, Modernism at the Beach offers new ways of understanding twentieth-century literature and its relation to ecological thought."-- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3346569 ER -