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Zusatztext well-organized and vivid survey of melancholic psychic structures Informationen zum Autor Sanja Bahun is Lecturer in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. She is the coeditor of Violence and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and the Extimate (Ashgate, 2008) and serves on the Executive Committee of the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA). Klappentext Modernism and Melancholia shows how a range of novels from 1913 to 1941 perform melancholia in their diction, images, metaphors, syntax, and experimental narrative techniques. "Bahun's remarkable book provides the first productive and original application of Freud's concepts of mourning and melancholia to the modernist period. Defining a specifically modernist melancholia, she highlights hitherto unperceived aspects of Bely's, Woolf's and Kafka's works. Bahun shows that their vision of history was haunted by catastrophe, their writing struggling with mourning for what had not yet come to pass, in a fruitful, moving and tense hesitation between two deaths." --Jean-Michel Rabate, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania"Bahun's study revisits the link between modernism and melancholia, rearticulating their coexistence in a fresh and convincing manner and offering in the process an insightful interpretation of three key authors of European modernism. This is a stimulating book that will make a distinct contribution to an important field of enquiry." --Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary, University of London"Sanja Bahun's intellectual tour de force illuminates and puts into dialogue two fiercely contested terms. In this timely interdisciplinary exploration of multiple inflections of melancholia and modernism, she lucidly thinks through the performative modes and historical specificities of both, and distils to a compelling argument on modernist fiction's permuting and virtuoso capacity to engage in the vital political and emotional work of countermourning." --Jane Goldman, Reader in English Literature, University of Glasgow Zusammenfassung Modernism and Melancholia shows how a range of novels from 1913 to 1941 perform melancholia in their diction, images, metaphors, syntax, and experimental narrative techniques. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; INTRODUCTION ; CHAPTER 1: MODERNISM: THE RISE OF COUNTERMOURNING ; CHAPTER 2: ANDREI BELY AND THE SPACES OF HISTORICAL MELANCHOLIA ; CHAPTER 3: "SCHLOSSGESCHICHTEN WERDEN ERZAHLT?": FRANZ KAFKA AND THE EMPTY DEPTH OF MODERNITY ; CHAPTER 4: VIRGINIA WOOLF AND THE SEARCH FOR HISTORICAL PATTERNS ; CONCLUSION: REDESCRIBING THE WORLD: CLOSING APERTURES ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX ...
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Modernism and Melancholia shows how a range of novels from 1913 to 1941 perform melancholia in their diction, images, metaphors, syntax, and experimental narrative techniques.
