The Machine that Sings: Modernism, Hart Crane and the Culture of the Body (Studies in Major Literary Authors) - Softcover

Tapper, Gordon A. A.

 
9781138011618: The Machine that Sings: Modernism, Hart Crane and the Culture of the Body (Studies in Major Literary Authors)
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ISBN 10: 1138011614 ISBN 13: 9781138011618
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Examining how Crane's corporeal aesthetic informs poems written across the span of his career, The Machine ThatSings 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 conceptual dynamic which Tapper argues is central to both Crane's poetics of difficulty and his representations of homosexual desire. Tapper concentrates on the three sections of The Bridge, most concerned with recuperating animality: 'National Winter Garden,' 'The Dance,' and 'Cape Hatteras.'

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Gordon A. Tapper

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138011614
ISBN 13 
9781138011618
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
232

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