Mourning Modernism : : Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation / / Lecia Rosenthal.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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