TY - BOOK
T1 - The Modernist Exoskeleton
T2 - Insects, War, Literary Form
AU - Murray, Rachel
PY - 2020/4/1
Y1 - 2020/4/1
N2 - Focusing 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.
AB - Focusing 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.
M3 - Authored book
SN - 9781474458191
SN - 9781474458207
T3 - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
BT - The Modernist Exoskeleton
PB - Edinburgh UP, Edinburgh
CY - Edinburgh
ER -