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Mourning modernism : literature, catastrophe, and the politics of consolation /

This work examines the writing of catastrophe, mass death, and collective loss in 20th-century literature and criticism. It pays particular attention to texts by Woolf, Benjamin, and Sebald, and engages the century's preoccupation with 'world-ending'.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rosenthal, Lecia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Catastrophe culture, atrocity supplements
  • Virginia Woolf: reading remains
  • Walter Benjamin on radio: catastrophe for children
  • On the late sublime: W.G. Sebald's The rings of saturn
  • Toward a conclusion: the in-exhaustible catastrophe.