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The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism - Oxford English Monographs
Moody, Alys (Lecturer in English, Macquarie University)
The Art of Hunger: Aesthetic Autonomy and the Afterlives of Modernism - Oxford English Monographs
Moody, Alys (Lecturer in English, Macquarie University)
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.
240 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | November 8, 2018 |
ISBN13 | 9780198828891 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 238 |
Dimensions | 223 × 149 × 18 mm · 420 g |