Mourning, modernism, postmodernism
By: Tammy Clewell.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230231948
Subjects: English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Grief in literature; Grief -- Political aspects; Modernism (Literature); Postmodernism (Literature)
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Contents * Introduction: Rethinking Loss; title: Remapping the Modernist and Postmodernist Novel * Woolf, the Great War, and Consolation Refused * Economies of Loss in Faulkners Fiction * The Country House and Waughs Nostalgia Revisited * The Sexual Politics of Mourning in Donoghue and Winterson * Notes * Index