The Poetics of Waste: Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith

by Christopher Schmidt

Book Overview

Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349486825
• ISBN13: 9781349486823
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"