When we think of writers today, we often think of them as thin and poor-as starving artists. This book traces the history of this idea, and asks why hunger has been such a compelling metaphor for thinking about writing in modern times.
When we think of writers today, we often think of them as thin and poor-as starving artists. This book traces the history of this idea, and asks why hunger has been such a compelling metaphor for thinking about writing in modern times.
Alys Moody is a Lecturer in English at Macquarie University in Sydney where she teaches modernism and contemporary literature. She previously worked at the University of Waikato and the University of Oxford, where she received her DPhil. With Stephen J. Ross, she is the editor of a forthcoming anthology of source texts for global modernism.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: The Aesthetics of Hunger * 1: The Modernist Art of Hunger * 2: Hunger in a Closed System: Samuel Beckett in Postwar France * 3: The Starving Artist as Dying Author: Paul Auster and Aesthetic Autonomy After 1968 * 4: Starving Across the Color Line: J. M. Coetzee in Apartheid South Africa * Conclusion: On the Refusal of Modernism's Afters
* Introduction: The Aesthetics of Hunger * 1: The Modernist Art of Hunger * 2: Hunger in a Closed System: Samuel Beckett in Postwar France * 3: The Starving Artist as Dying Author: Paul Auster and Aesthetic Autonomy After 1968 * 4: Starving Across the Color Line: J. M. Coetzee in Apartheid South Africa * Conclusion: On the Refusal of Modernism's Afters
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