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Mourning Modernism
Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation
Résumé
This book examines the writing of catastrophe, mass death, and collective loss in twentieth-century literature and criticism. With particular focus on texts by Woolf, Benjamin, and Sebald, it engages the century's preoccupation with world-ending, a mixed rhetoric of totality and rupture, finitude and survival, the end and its posthumous remainders. The spectacle of world-ending proliferates as a form of desire, an ambivalent compulsion to consume and outlive the end of all. In conversation with discussions of the century's passionfor the real, the author reads the century's obsession with negative forms of ending and outcome. Drawing connections between current interest in trauma and the sublime, she reframes the terms of the modernist experiment and its aesthetics from the lens of a late sublime
Détails de l'édition
- ISBN-13
- 9780823233977
- ISBN-10
- 0823233979
- EAN
- 9780823233977
- Éditeur
- Fordham university press (New York)
- Date de publication
- 1 janvier 2011
- Langue
- en
- Pages
- 172
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
Provenance des données
- dimensions BnF Catalogue général · 23 juillet 2026
- language Google Books · 4 septembre 2026
- page_count Google Books · 4 septembre 2026
- publication_date BnF Catalogue général · 23 juillet 2026
- subtitle Open Library · 2 août 2026
- summary Google Books · 4 septembre 2026
- title Open Library · 2 août 2026