Romance in the Time of Modernism - A Literature of Silence

This book is a comparative analysis of classic texts of the Western canon, with each text grounded on a modernist version of love. As the aesthetic of modernism is still an aesthetic of sublime, romance becomes a tale of beauty and terror.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: What was Modernism?
Chapter Two: Beauty Against the Grain: The Great Gatsby
Chapter Three: Prufrock, the Underground Man, and the reader
Chapter Four: Modernist Aesthetics: Silence and Absence
Chapter Five: Expressionist Loves
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Alberto Castelli is writer and humanities professor at Hainan University, China.

Summary

This book is a comparative analysis of classic texts of the Western canon, with each text grounded on a modernist version of love. As the aesthetic of modernism is still an aesthetic of sublime, romance becomes a tale of beauty and terror.

Product details

• Authors: Alberto Castelli
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2024
• EAN: 9781666967524
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-752-4
• No. of pages: 126
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Gothic, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: general, Romanticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica