Name: Asbestos - The Last Modernist Object (en Inglés)
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Author: Rose, Arthur
ISBN: 9781474482431

portada Asbestos - The Last Modernist Object (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Arthur Rose

Editorial

Edinburgh University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm

Peso

0.39 kg.

ISBN13

9781474482431

Categorías

Estudios literarios del siglo xx
Literatura comparada
Historia de la humanidad

Asbestos - The Last Modernist Object (en Inglés)

Arthur Rose (Autor) · Edinburgh University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Asbestos - The Last Modernist Object (en Inglés)"

Few modern materials have been as central to histories of environmental toxicity, medical ignorance, and legal liability as asbestos. A naturally occurring mineral fibre once hailed for its ability to guard against fire, asbestos is now best known for the horrific illnesses it causes. This book offers a new take on the established history of asbestos from a literary critical perspective, showing how literature and film during and after modernism responded first to the material's proliferation through the built environment, and then to its catastrophic effects on human health. Starting from the surprising encounters writers have had with asbestos--Franz Kafka's part ownership of an asbestos factory, Primo Levi's work in an asbestos mine, and James Kelman's early life as an asbestos factory worker--the book looks to literature to rethink received truths in historical, legal and medical scholarship. In doing so, it models an interdisciplinary approach for tracking material intersections between modernism and the environmental and health humanities. Asbestos - The Last Modernist Object offers readers a compelling new method for using cultural objects when thinking about how to live with the legacies of toxic materials.