Modernism and melancholia : writing as countermourning
Bahun, SanjaAuthor
Modernism and melancholia share intellectual fate: being at once categories, conditions, discourses, modes of expression, and social projects, they feed on their own ambiguity. But modernism and melancholia also share a history: it was in the cultural-historical period we tentatively term 'modernism' that a fundamental shift in our understanding of melancholia occurred. This study addresses these questions by focusing on the manifestations of melancholia in modernist fiction internationally.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modernism and melancholia share intellectual fate: being at once categories, conditions, discourses, modes of expression, and social projects, they feed on their own ambiguity. But modernism and melancholia also share a history: it was in the cultural-historical period we tentatively term 'modernism' that a fundamental shift in our understanding of melancholia occurred. This study addresses these questions by focusing on the manifestations of melancholia in modernist fiction internationally.
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Modernism: The rise of countermourning -- Andrei Bely and the spaces of historical melancholia -- Schlossgeschichten werden erzählt?: Franz Kafka and the empty depth of modernity -- Virginia Woolf and the search for historical patterns -- Conclusion: Redescribing the world: closing apertures.
Modernism (Literature)
Depression, Mental, in literature
Languages & Literatures
Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures
Literature - General