Modernism Beyond the Human: Transnational Perspectives (Critical Posthumanisms, 4)

Front Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
	References
Part 1 Modernism and the Nonhuman
	Chapter 1 Prefiguring Modernist Posthumanism: Baudelaire, Rimbaud and the Objectification of the Lyric Self
		1 Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and the Humanist Tradition
		2 From “Subjective” to “Objective” Poetry; or, from the Human to the Posthuman
		References
	Chapter 2 Becoming-Digit: Valentine de Saint-Point’s Posthumanist Futurism
		1 Metachoric Performance: Virtual Geometry and Saint-Point’s Posthumanism
		2 Saint-Point’s Posthuman Futurism as Performance Art: the Multimedia Body-Digit
		Acknowledgments
		References
	Chapter 3 Politics of Identity: Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Poetry of the Great War between Nomadic Subjectivity and Performative Realism
		1 Introduction
		2 Nomadic Identity
		3 Nomadic Ethics
		4 Nomadic Memories and the Life-Death Continuum
		5 Some Conclusions: an Intra-action of Performative and Nomadic Identities
		References
	Chapter 4 Variations on “Maquinismo”: Looking beyond the Human in Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s Writings
		1 “Maquinismo” and the Non-human Art
		2 Radio Waves, Atoms and Voices beyond the Human
		References
	Chapter 5 The Tender Being of Something Else: Geography and Lists in Gertrude Stein’s Ida
		1 Listing beyond the Human
		2 Movement, “Nature,” and the Accumulation of Lists
		3 The Intrusive States of America
		4 Impersonal Being, Negation, and Affirmation
		5 Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 6 Samuel Beckett and Modernist Vitalism
		1 Introduction
		2 The Subject/Object (Non)Relation
		3 The Inhuman
		4 An Orgy of False Becoming
		5 Conclusion
		References
Part 2 Modernist Animals
	Chapter 7 Rumination of a Serbian Ox: Radoje Domanovic’s Satire of Anthropocentric Folly
		1 Context and Overview
		2 Irrational Humans: Analysis of The Leader, A Mark, and I Do Not Understand
		3 A Thinking Animal: Analysis of Rumination of a Common Serbian Ox
		4 Conclusion: Domanović between Serbian Literature, Russian Classics and Western Modernism
		References
	Chapter 8 “Come se”: Transcending the Human-Animal Divide in Pirandello’s Short Stories
		1 Introduction
		2 Human and Animal: Interspecies Relations from Woolf to Pirandello
		3 Animal Consciousness: Narrative Empathy
		4 Mediated Empathy: Translating Animal Experience
		5 Human-Animal Gap: Defamiliarization
		6 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 9 Modernist Exiles: the Berlin Years of Viktor Shklovsky, Aleksei Remizov, and the Masturbating Ape
		References
	Chapter 10 “Brandishing Her Plumes”: Virginia Woolf, Feather Tropes, and the Plumage (Prohibition) Bill
		1 Posthumanism
		2 Virginia Woolf and “The Plumage Bill”
		3 “The Plumage Bill” and Imperial Feminism
		4 Tracing Woolf’s Feather Tropes
		5 Imperial and Military Plumes
		6 India and Plumage in Mrs. Dalloway
		7 Pluming Orlando: A Biography
		References
	Chapter 11 Posthumanism avant la lettre: Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities and the Boundaries of Humankind
		1 Humankind and Modernity
		2 The Boundaries of Humankind
			2.1 Zoology
			2.2 Ethnology
		3 Posthumanist Narrative Form
		4 Contextualizing and Transgressing the Concept of Man(kind)
		References
	Chapter 12 Animals and Logos in Samuel Beckett’s Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable
		1 Unsanctifying Logos as Speech and Reason
		2 Mastery over One’s Environment and Objective Knowledge
		3 Mastery over One’s Language and through Language
		4 Logos as Ground
		5 Pure Humans
		6 Toward Humbler Viewpoints
		7 Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 13 Towards an Interpretation of a Modernist Bestiary in Color: Palazzeschi’s Bestie del 900 and Maccari’s Illustrations
		1 Introduction
		2 A Four-Handed Masterpiece
		3 Palazzeschi’s 20th-century Bestiary: Ways of Reading
			3.1 The Individual and Its Contrast with Society
			3.2 Power Relations
		4 Gestalt Theory and the Interpretative Function of Images
		5 The Hybrid as an Interpretative Category
		References
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