Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism [electronic resource] /
Clewell, T.author.
Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism  traces the emergence of a fundamentally new way of writing about individual and collective mourning, demonstrating how a refusal of consolation and closure succeeds in promoting a progressive cultural politics crucial for reimaging gender, racial, and sexual subjects.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Rethinking loss; remapping the novel -- Pt. I. Inceptions -- Woolf and the Great War -- Economies of loss in Faulkner's fiction -- Pt. II. Legacies -- Waugh's nostalgia revisited -- The sexual politics of mourning.
Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism  traces the emergence of a fundamentally new way of writing about individual and collective mourning, demonstrating how a refusal of consolation and closure succeeds in promoting a progressive cultural politics crucial for reimaging gender, racial, and sexual subjects.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Sociology.
Literature—Philosophy.
Cultural studies.
Postmodernism.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Sociology, general.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Studies.
Postmodern Philosophy.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.