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Mourning Modernism : Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation /

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 t...

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Autor principal: Rosenthal, Lecia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Catastrophe Culture, Atrocity Supplements
  • 2. Virginia Woolf: Reading Remains
  • 3. Walter Benjamin on Radio: Catastrophe for Children
  • 4. On the Late Sublime: W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn
  • Toward a Conclusion: The In-Exhaustible Catastrophe
  • Notes
  • Index