Tense future : modernism, total war, encyclopedic form
Saint-Amour, Paul KAuthor
Saint-Amour, Paul K.Author
'Tense Future' falls into two parts. The first develops a critical account of total war discourse and addresses the resistant potential of acts, including acts of writing, before a future that looks barred or pre-determined by war. Part two shifts the focus to long inter-war narratives that pit both their scale and their formal turbulence against total war's portrait of the social totality, producing both ripostes and alternatives to that portrait in the practice of literary encyclopedism.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Tense Future' falls into two parts. The first develops a critical account of total war discourse and addresses the resistant potential of acts, including acts of writing, before a future that looks barred or pre-determined by war. Part two shifts the focus to long inter-war narratives that pit both their scale and their formal turbulence against total war's portrait of the social totality, producing both ripostes and alternatives to that portrait in the practice of literary encyclopedism.
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Modernism (Literature)
War and literature
War in literature
Languages & Literatures
Literature - General