TY - BOOK ID - 134486793 TI - Modernist Authenticities PY - 2014 SN - 3825374637 9783825374631 PB - Heidelberg Universitätsverlag Winter DB - UniCat KW - Lowell, Amy, KW - Williams, William Carlos, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134486793 AB - 'Modernist Authenticities' challenges current understandings of modernism by investigating modernist poetry's affinities with surfaces, performances, and materiality. Arguing that modernist writers reference the material body as a source of authenticity and anxiety, this study explores poetry in the context of somatic discourses. Reconsidering Amy Lowell's and William Carlos Williams's poetry, as well as texts by selected other authors, this book suggests that modernism operates with both essentialist and performative conceptions of authenticity. The study proposes that the expansion of the mo ER -