""Examining how Crane's corporeal aesthetic informs poems written across the span of his career, The Machine That Sings focuses on four texts in which Crane's preoccupation with the body reaches its apoge. Tapper treats Voyages, The Wine Merchant, and Possessions as a triptych of erotic poems in which Crane plays out alternative resolutions to the dialectic between purity and defilement, a conceptual dynamic which Tapper argues is central to both Crane's poetics of difficulty and his representations of homosexual desire. Tapper concentrates on the three sections of The Bridge, most concerned with recuperating animality: 'National Winter Garden, ' 'The Dance, ' and 'Cape Hatteras."--Publisher's website."
"The Machine That Sings examines the relationship between Crane's poetry and the widespread preoccupation with the animality of the body that helped define American modernism during the 1920s. Focusing on ''Voyages, '' ''The Wine Menagerie, '' ''Possessions, '' and The Bridge, Tapper argues that Crane's corporeal poetics are engaged in a dialogue with competing views of the body as, on one hand, a surface inscribed by history and, on the other, a source of renewal enabled by the recuperation of animality. & nbsp; By reading Crane alongside an array of cultural discourses--including sexology; ethnog."@en

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"The machine that sings modernism, Hart Crane, and the culture of the body"
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"The machine that sings : modernism, Hart Crane, and the culture of the body"
"The machine that sings : modernism, Hart Crane, and the culture of the body"@en
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"The machine that sings : modernism, Hart Crane and the culture of the body"
"The Machine that Sings Modernism, Hart Crane, and the Culture of the Body"@en