{"product_id":"invalid-modernism-disability-and-the-missing-body-of-the-aesthetic-hardcover","title":"Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Davidson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInvalid Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e contributes to an intersectional moment in disability studies by looking at modernist aesthetics through a 'defamiliar body'. It also offers an intersectional understanding of modernism by studying the representation of physical and cognitive difference during a period marked by progressive reforms in health, labor, and welfare. Readings of texts by Henry James, Samuel Beckett, Virginia Woolf, William Carlos Williams, James Joyce, Djuna Barnes, Oscar Wilde, F.T. Marinetti, Jean Toomer, an opera by Alexander Zemlinsky, and paintings and constructions by dadaists and surrealists are set against the historical developments in sexology, medical discourse, and the pseudo-sciences of eugenics and anthropometry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eModernist works are well known for challenging formal features of narration and representation, but it is seldom observed that this challenge has often been enabled by figures of shell-shocked veterans, tubercular heroines, blind soothsayers, invalid aesthetes, and neurasthenic women. Such figures complicate an aesthetics of autonomy by which modernism is often understood. Since its evolution in the eighteenth century, aesthetics has been seen in terms of judgments based on detached appreciation. What begins as a highly privative, sensate response to an object or natural formation results in a disinterested judgment about the value of that response. By looking at modernist aesthetics through a disability optic, \u003cem\u003e Invalid Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e attempts to restore the missing body to aesthetics by disclosing a structure of feeling around dramatic changes in modernity. These changes are registered on and through the bodies and minds of figures considered in medical discourse of the period as 'invalid'\u003cbr\u003ecitizens and subjects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Davidson, \u003cem\u003eDistinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael Davidson is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century, Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word, Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eOutskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics\u003c\/em\u003e. His work in disability studies can be seen in \u003cem\u003eConcerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body\u003c\/em\u003e published by the University of Michigan Press. He is the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe New Collected Poems of George Oppen\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the author of six books of poetry, the most recent of which is \u003cem\u003eBleed Through: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e from Coffee House Press. \u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.3 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457402290429,"sku":"9780198832812","price":195.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/d3IzV1NXMjE1a2JRazJ0UjUxckt0QT09.webp?v=1777237562","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/invalid-modernism-disability-and-the-missing-body-of-the-aesthetic-hardcover","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}