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Antinomian Remedies: Rehabilitative Futurism, Towards a Better Life , and Kenneth Burke's Modernist Equipment for Living
- Author(s):
- jesse_miller (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Group(s):
- LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American, TC Disability Studies, TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies, TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature, Theory and Modernism
- Subject(s):
- Disability studies, American literature, Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Djuna Barnes, Towards a Better Life, Counter-Statement, Nightwood, rehabilitative futurism, Modernism, American modernism, Kenneth Burke
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/tsz3-4608
- Abstract:
- This essay examines the relationship between modernist formal experimentation and rehabilitative futurism, the modern cultural fantasy of a hygienic future in which all illness and disability have been eradicated. Through a reading of Kenneth Burke's early essay collection Counter-Statement (1931) and his first and only novel, Towards a Better Life (1932), it traces the development both of Burke's notion of literature as "medicine" or "equipment for living" and of modernist literature as a particular kind of antinomian remedy that subverts the norms of health. Drawing on these ideas, this essay argues that modernist literature has the transgressive capacity to alter readers' orientation toward the good life and the horizon of what is possible for acting toward the creation of a future society in which disability can flourish.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
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- All Rights Reserved
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