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Material Modernism: Nature, Resources, and Aesthetics

Hartke, Katelyn
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1016-006X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1657552726038984

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2022, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, English.
Material Modernism: Nature, Resources, and Aesthetics, asks how natural resources, from their extraction, refinement, and consumption, influence modernist aesthetics. How might directing our attention to the paper shortages in the British Commonwealth in the 1940s enliven perceptions of the debates over modernist aesthetics and nationhood in little magazines like Horizon and BIM, which circulated across the Atlantic? How do we answer for the ubiquity of rubber in the fiction of classic modernists like Joseph Conrad and James Joyce as well as its influence on the career of British Consulate turned Irish revolutionary, Roger Casement? What does the linking of character development to the development of land in Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing and Sam Selvon’s A Brighter Sun tell us about futures cultivated through land dispossession? These questions indicate important links between the transnational networks that constructed twentieth century geopolitics and transnational modernism. Modernist literary projects circulated within systems that often seemed surprisingly boundless, yet systems of imperialism and histories of over extraction were the inciting conditions for their existence. Therefore, when read together, transnational modernism and the influence of natural resources enliven our understanding of past patterns of thinking and shed light on our current moment of extreme extraction and climate crisis.
Thomas S. Davis (Advisor)
Adeleke Adeeko (Committee Member)
Jesse Schotter (Committee Member)
177 p.
Aesthetics; Environmental Studies; Literature
transnational modernism, natural resources, aesthetics

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  • Hartke, K. (2022). Material Modernism: Nature, Resources, and Aesthetics [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1657552726038984

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hartke, Katelyn. Material Modernism: Nature, Resources, and Aesthetics. 2022. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1657552726038984.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hartke, Katelyn. "Material Modernism: Nature, Resources, and Aesthetics." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1657552726038984

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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