{"id":3016,"date":"2020-03-03T18:59:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T18:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/?post_type=books&#038;p=3016"},"modified":"2024-05-06T16:40:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T16:40:41","slug":"modernist-objects","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/books\/modernist-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Modernist Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Modernist Objects<\/em>\u00a0is a unique mix of cultural studies, literature, and visual arts applied to the discrete materiality of modernist objects. The simultaneously physical and ideological nature of objects has made them remarkably transparent to critical inquiries into their aesthetic, political, social, historical, or philosophical uses and meanings. This book identifies three processes at work in the apprehension of objects in poetry, prose, visual arts, culture, and crafts. If the first instinct of the modernist novelists and playwrights was to object to the realist tradition of objects as more or less stable inherited signifiers, they felt themselves equally free, we find, to take up humanity as their object. The human body, emotions, and mind were endowed with newfound plasticity, and it was now the artist\u2019s and the writer\u2019s task to fashion them after their own image, mobilizing and expanding them through objects seen as relational and connective catalysts for the modernist subject. Finally, the futile and decorative object is explored. From Baroness Elsa performing the commodity fetish to Jean Rhys performing the dissolution of the self in a frenzy of sartorial ornament, the agency of surface detail (misplaced, proliferating, or repurposed) is made manifest and given free play.<br \/>\n<i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Modernist Objects<\/i> is a thorough and diverse essay collection that will interest specialists and novices alike. . . . Each essay [brings] us a new perspective on its corpus. We understand better through this objects-aesthetic approach how objects are functioning within literature or art, and in some cases, the particular connection of the objects to the writer or artist.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2014Amy D. Wells,\u00a0<i>TransAtlantica<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Part One: Objecting to Realism<br \/>\n1. Objectionable Objects | Douglas Mao<br \/>\n2. \u201cSuch density of furniture defeats imagination\u201d: Beckett\u2019s Post-War Room and the Inheritance of Things | Martin Schauss<br \/>\n3. From Eggbeaters and Alcohol to Gryphons, Dolls, and Puppets: The Affective Mobilities of Djuna Barnes\u2019s Objects | Pavlina Radia<br \/>\n4. Tradition and the Test-Tube Baby | Rachel Bowlby<\/p>\n<p>Part Two: Fashioning the Human<br \/>\n5.\u00a0The Fabric of Home: Cotton Cloth between Ontology and Use-Value in Paul Klee\u2019s, Varvara Stepanova\u2019s and Lyubov Popova\u2019s Artwork | Sanja Bahun<br \/>\n6. Computer Science for (Live) Modernism(s): Magazines as Metaobjects | Louise Kane<br \/>\n7. \u201cTwang the lyre and rattle the lexicon\u201d: Harps and Lyres in Modernist Poetry | Jennifer Kilgore-Caradec<br \/>\n8. Louise Bourgeois\u2019s Melancholy Objects to be Used | Lynn M. Somers<\/p>\n<p>Part Three: Performing the Ornamental<br \/>\n9. Limbswish: Baroness Elsa\u2019s \u201cReady-to-Wear\u201d Poem-Objects | Yasna Bozhkova<br \/>\n10. The Furniture of Alter-Modernism: Eileen Gray\u2019s and Le Corbusier\u2019s Two Orientalisms | Maurizia Boscagli<br \/>\n11. \u201cLOST! HANSOME GOLE BROOCH.\u201d Broken, Lost and Forgotten Objects in Woolf, Mansfield and Stein | Nonia Williams<br \/>\n12. Diasporic Modernism: Memory, the Object and Jean Rhys\u2019s <em>Good Morning, Midnight<\/em> (1939) | Justine Baillie<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":3017,"template":"","subject":[36,37],"browse_by_series":[39],"browse_by_imprints":[],"conference":[],"class_list":["post-3016","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-literature","subject-modernism","browse_by_series-seminal-modernisms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/3016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5076,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/3016\/revisions\/5076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_series?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_imprints","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_imprints?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"conference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conference?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}