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Mourning Modernity : Literary Modernism and the Injuries of American Capitalism /

In Mourning Modernity, Seth Moglen argues that American literary modernism is, at its heart, an effort to mourn for the injuries inflicted by modern capitalism. He demonstrates that the most celebrated literary movement of the 20th century is structured by a deep conflict between political hope and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moglen, Seth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. The Two Modernisms
  • I. Modernism and Loss: The Divided Response to American Capitalism
  • 2. Melancholic Modernism
  • 3. The Modernism of Mourning
  • PART TWO. The Two Modernisms at War: Dos Passos's USA Trilog;
  • 4. John Dos Passos and the Crises of American Radicalism, 1916-1936
  • 5. The Modernism of Mourning in U.S.A.: "Writing So Fiery and Accurate"
  • 6. Melancholic Modernism in U.S.A.: Naturalism and the "Torment of Hope"
  • Conclusion: "The Language of the Beaten Nation Is Not Forgotten"-Dos Passos's Camera Eye and the Unfinished Work of Mourning
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index