Hart Crane's Queer Modernist Aesthetic [Hardcover]

Hart Crane's Queer Modernist Aesthetic argues that the aspects of experience which modernists sought to interrogate  time, space, and material things  were challenged further by Crane's queer poetics. Reading Crane alongside contemporary queer theory shows how he creates an alternative form of modernism.Introduction: Relationality 1. American Decadence and the Creation of a Queer Modernist Aesthetic 2. Abstraction and Intersubjectivity in White Buildings 3. Spatiality, Movement, and the Logic of Metaphor 4. Temporality, Futurity, and the Body 5. Empiricism, Mysticism, and a Queer Form of Knowledge 6. Queer Technology, Failure, and a Return to the Hand Conclusion: Towards a Queer Community Notes Bibliography IndexNiall Munro is Senior Lecturer in American Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK.