Persistence of Modernism - Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century

Klappentext This book examines the persistence of modernism into the twenty-first century, and argues for its continued relevance in relation to contemporary traumas. Zusammenfassung This book examines the continued relevance of modernism in the early twenty first century! a time of escalating loss! retribution and desire. Some of the social formations that inspired modernism are still with us! and Detloff argues that the resilient writing of modernist figures offers us insight into our own contemporary traumas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'The captivating spell of the past'; Part I. War, Time, Trauma: 1. Woolf's resilience; 2. Stein's shame; 3. H. D.'s wars; Part II. The Modernist Patch: 4. Pictures, arguments, and empathy; 5. The promise and peril of metic intimacy; 6. Orpheus, AIDS, and The Hours; Epilogue: towards a survivable public mourning.

Product details

• Authors: Madelyn Detloff, Madelyn (Miami University) Detloff
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521182461
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18246-1
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies