Mourning, modernism, postmodernism
By: Tammy Clewell
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780230231948
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: Introduction: Rethinking loss; remapping the novel; title: Pt. I. Inceptions; title: Woolf and the Great War; title: Economies of loss in Faulkner's fiction; title: Pt. II. Legacies; title: Waugh's nostalgia revisited; title: The sexual politics of mourning.