The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism by Alys Moody
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Overview: Offers an original account of the prevalence of hunger in twentieth-century literature and sheds light on the persistence of commonplace tropes such as the ‘starving artist’
Provides a history of the reception of modernism and aesthetic autonomy in the second half of the twentieth century
Locates Samuel Beckett, Paul Auster, and J. M. Coetzee in relation to their historical contexts, especially debates about the relationship between art and politics
Presents original archival research into the Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee papers, as well as the student activism papers in the Columbia University archives and post-war French and Anglophone periodicals
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
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