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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137402784
• ISBN13: 9781137402783
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"