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Lecia Rosenthal - Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation - 9780823233977 - V9780823233977
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Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation

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Description for Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation examines the writing of catastrophe, mass death, and collective loss in 20th-century literature and criticism. With particular focus on texts by Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, and W.G. Sebald, Mourning Modernism engages the century’s signal preoccupation with “world-ending,” a mixed rhetoric of totality and rupture, finitude and survival, the end and its posthumous remainders. Fascinated with the threat of apocalypse, the century proliferates the spectacle of world-ending as a form of desire, an ambivalent compulsion to consume and outlive the “end of all.” In conversation with recent discussions of the ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823233977
SKU
V9780823233977
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About Lecia Rosenthal
Lecia Rosenthal is an Independent Scholar.

Reviews for Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation
Lecia Rosenthal’s intricate argument traces the engagement with catastrophe in the work of three exemplary figures, Woolf, Benjamin, and Sebald. She also offers a compelling diagnosis of modernism’s stubborn insistence that catastrophe must offer some form of gain. Rosenthal’s brilliance lies in her refusal to console us. This is a demanding, provocative, and deeply rewarding book.
-—Martin Harries, ... Read more

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