1st Edition
The Machine that Sings Modernism, Hart Crane and the Culture of the Body
By Gordon A. Tapper
Copyright 2007
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Examining how Crane's corporeal aesthetic informs poems written across the span of his career, The Machine That Sings 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... Read more
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
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Gordon A. Tapper
