TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murray,Rachel
TI  - The Modernist Exoskeleton: Insects, War, Literary Form 
T2  - Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
SN  - 9781474458191
U1  - 820.936 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Insects in literature
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FIGURES --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; SERIES EDITORS’ PREFACE --; ABBREVIATIONS --; INTRODUCTION --; 1 SHELL BURSTS: WYNDHAM LEWIS --; 2 FORMICATION: D. H. LAWRENCE --; 3 COCOON STATES: H.D. --; 4 LARVAL FORMS: SAMUEL BECKETT --; CONCLUSION: ‘THINGS THAT WON’T QUITE FORMULATE' --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - Argues for the importance of insects to modernism’s formal innovationsUses the idea of the insect as a key to modernist writers’ engagement with questions of politics, psychology, life, and literary formProvides in-depth analysis of lesser-known modernist narratives, such as H.D.’s Asphodel and Lewis’s Snooty Baronet, as well as new readings of canonical texts – including D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Samuel Beckett’s TrilogyExplores the influence of popular scientific writing on modernist aestheticsReveals the attentiveness of modernist writers to nonhuman life, thus forging new lines of connection between modernism and literary animal studiesFocusing on the writing of Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, H.D. and Samuel Beckett, this book uncovers a shared fascination with the aesthetic possibilities of the insect body – its adaptive powers, distinct stages of growth and swarming formations. Through a series of close readings, it proposes that the figure of the exoskeleton, which functions both as a protective outer layer and as a site of encounter, can enhance our understanding of modernism’s engagement with nonhuman life, as well as its questioning of the boundaries of the human
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474458214
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474458214
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ER  -