The Poetics of Waste: Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith - Paperback

by C. Schmidt (Author)

Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics.

Author Biography

Christopher Schmidt is Assistant Professor of English at The City University of New York, LaGuardia, USA.