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Modernism at the beach : queer ecologies and the coastal commons / Hannah Freed-Thall.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Modernist Latitudes | Modernist latitudesPublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 275 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0231551975
  • 9780231551977
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modernism at the beachDDC classification:
  • 809/.9336 23/eng/20220914
LOC classification:
  • PN56.B34 F74 2023
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: "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."-- Publisher's website.
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"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."-- Publisher's website.

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

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In English.

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