Solid Objects
In this provocative and wide-ranging study, Douglas Mao argues that a profound tension between veneration of human production and anxiety about production''s dangers lay at the heart of literary modernism. Focusing on the work of Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens, Mao shows that modernists were captivated by physical objects, which, regarded as objects, seemed to parta...
In this provocative and wide-ranging study, Douglas Mao argues that a profound tension between veneration of human production and anxiety about production''s dangers lay at the heart of literary modernism. Focusing on the work of Virginia Woolf, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Wallace Stevens, Mao shows that modernists were captivated by physical objects, which, regarded as objects, seemed to parta...
