Modernism and Nostalgia [electronic resource] : Bodies, Locations, Aesthetics /
Clewell, T.editor.
This book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion, remembrance, or fixation, these essays demonstrate that the nostalgic impulse reveals how deeply rooted in the damaged, the old, and the vanishing, were the variety of efforts to imagine and produce the new—the distinctly modern.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. I. Bodies -- pt. II. Locations -- pt. III. Aesthetics.
This book addresses the multiple meanings of nostalgia in the literature of the period. Whether depicted as an emotion, remembrance, or fixation, these essays demonstrate that the nostalgic impulse reveals how deeply rooted in the damaged, the old, and the vanishing, were the variety of efforts to imagine and produce the new—the distinctly modern.
Poetry.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
Aesthetics.
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
Poetry and Poetics.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
Aesthetics.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.