In a Strange Room - Modernism''s Corpses and Mortal Obligation

Taking its title from Faulkner's epochal modernist novel, David Sherman's study traces the myriad ways death and its effect on the living defined modernist fiction and verse in England, Ireland, and the U.S.

About the author

David Sherman is Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis University.

Summary

Taking its title from Faulkner's epochal modernist novel, David Sherman's study traces the myriad ways death and its effect on the living defined modernist fiction and verse in England, Ireland, and the U.S.

Additional text

an engaging study of the ways in which society's shifting relationship with death influenced the work of a wide range of writers.

Product details

• Authors: Sherman, David Sherman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.05.2014
• EAN: 9780199333882
• ISBN: 978-0-19-933388-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Modernist Literature and Culture; Modernist Literature & Culture; Modernist Literature and Cultu
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies