Anexact Form and Modernist Culture

AvJames Reath

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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What happens to form in a time of random walks and Uncertainty Principles, self-organising plasma membranes and multivalent logics? And how might we better categorise the modernist avant-garde's confrontation with such complex and contradictory formalisms? Anexact Form and Modernist Culture presents a soft taxonomy of the long mid-century avant-garde's fuzzy, grey, and viscous forms while investigating the aesthetic and affective valences of that which is 'essentially and not accidentally inexact', as Edmund Husserl writes in Ideas I (1913). Across five chapters on doodles and inkblots; iridescent surfaces and the noise of becoming; the erratic cultural life of precision; the mesomorphic imagination of protoplasm; and the groovy aesthetics of industrial chemistry Anexact Form and Modernist Culture offers a unique examination of avant-garde art and literature in a time of unprecedented err, smudge, ooze and wriggle.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-07-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 19 mm
Vikt:617 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Avant-Garde Writing
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399547499

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James Reath is a Wellcome Trust Early Career Research Fellow in English Literature at the University of Exeter (2023-2027). He received his PhD in English Literature from University College London (UCL) in 2022 and has held visiting fellowships at Yale University (2021) and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin (2022).

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With imagination and rigor, verve and flair, James Reath explores modernism’s fondness for squiggling, oozing, grooving, dawdling, fuzzy, mesomorphic forms. Sensitive to the power of ‘weak’ forces, brilliantly attuned to the intersection of literature and science, Anexact Form and Modernist Culture is a delight.

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List of FiguresAcknowledgementsGeneral Introduction: Here Comes EverythingPart I. The FuzzyIntroduction: Welcome to Errorland1. History of the Doodle: Pareidoliamania and the Cultural Logic of Squiggles and Inkblots2. The Iridescent: Seven Types of Colour-Writing, Poikilos-Mētis and the Surface of SurfacesPart II. The GreyIntroduction: Untitled3. After Exactitude: Idiometry and the Art of Mechanical PrecisionPart III. The ViscousIntroduction: Abscess Sky Index4. Plasmodial Form: Wortschleim and the Mesomorphic Imagination of Protoplasm5. Theory of the Groovy: Latex, Jelly, Nylon, RuthmosCoda: On Floating BodiesSelected BibliographyNotesIndex