Books written by Douglas Mao

Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature 1860-1960

In Fateful Beauty, Douglas Mao recovers the lost intellectual, social, and literary history of the belief that the beauty--or ugliness--of the environment in which one is raised influences or even determines one's fate.
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice

Philosophical commentaries on The Matrix that cite Nozick include, in the Grau collection, Grau's “Bad Dreams,” Pryor's “What's So Bad,” Vasiliou's “Reality,” and Warwick's “The Matrix”; and in the Irwin collection, Erion and Smith's ...
Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production

At the close of the poem, he appears as the “[e]ffective colonizer sharply stopped / In the door-yard by his own capacious bloom” (44), this remarkable allusion to Whitman's elegy suggesting not only that Crispin's poetry has been ...
Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960

number of evocations of youthful male beauty, The Renaissance, together with Marius (1885), “played in Pater's Oxford the part played more widely a few years later by Whitman's Calamus poems,” according to Denis Donoghue.
The New Modernist Studies

6 Amy J. Elias and Christian Moraru, “Introduction: The Planetary Condition,” in The Planetary Turn: ... 18 Susan Stanford Friedman, Planetary Modernisms: Provocations on Modernity across Time (New York: Columbia University Press, ...
Bad Modernisms

In this collection, these developments are exemplified by essays ranging from a reading of dandyism in 1920s Harlem as a performance of a “bad” black modernist imaginary to a consideration of Filipino American modernism in the context ...
The New Modernist Studies

Deep time dwarfs all human aesthetic modes and movements, but especially those arrayed around the new, the now, the moment. ... or the advent of atmospheric nuclear weapons testing, modernism has no signature type of sediment, fossil, ...
Bad Modernisms

DIVCollection of essays on the ways in which modernist literature, film, and art transgressed the artistic and cultural norms we associate we "high" modernism./div "Bright, disquieting, and energetic, these essays bring back to life the ...
Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960

"--Maria DiBattista, Princeton University "This book provides a really original take on the literature of the fin de siècle and high modernism, suggesting how central the imaginative labor of literary works was to the social, philosophical ...
Inventions of Nemesis: Utopia, Indignation, and Justice

them “Black Empire Has Radio and Television Station Which Is Finest in the World” (157) and “Dr. Belsidus Calls ... of invention makes a scandal of real- world restrictions (prescriptive or descriptive) on opportunities to exercise that ...