Bodies of modernism: physical disability in transatlantic modernist literature

Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; One; 1. The Poetics of Totality; 2. Céline and Innocence; Two; 3. Form Production in The Magic Mountain; 4. Kafkaâ#x80;#x99;s Dialectic; 5. Allegory and History: On Rereading Doktor Faustus; Three; 6. Ulysses in History

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