Kevin Tunnicliffe is a PhD Candidate at the University of Victoria, Canada. His dissertation is entitled “Anaesthetic Narrative Form in Modernist Fiction,” and brings together theories of affect, neo-formalism, and neuroscience to challenge the canonical reading of high modernism that privileges aesthetics of shock and reinvigoration; instead, Kevin examines the widespread, if underappreciated, experience of insensitivity as a consequence of—perhaps the only rational response to—the shocks of modernity. Kevin writes for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.
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“Moonlight, Metaphor, and the Influence of Wallace Stevens in Don McKay’s The Book of Moonlight
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