Mourning, modernism, postmodernism[e...
Clewell, Tammy, (1962-)

 

  • Mourning, modernism, postmodernism[electronic resource] /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 809.39353
    Title/Author: Mourning, modernism, postmodernism/ Tammy Clewell.
    Author: Clewell, Tammy,
    Published: Basingstoke : : Palgrave Macmillan,, c2009.
    Description: viii, 185 p. ;; 23 cm.
    Subject: Fiction - History and criticism. - 20th century
    Subject: Mourning customs in literature.
    Subject: Loss (Psychology) in literature.
    Subject: Modernism (Literature)
    Subject: Postmodernism (Literature)
    ISBN: 9780230274259
    ISBN: 0230274250
    [NT 15000228]: Introduction: Rethinking Loss; Remapping the Novel -- Woolf and the Great War -- Economies ofLoss in Faulkner's Fiction -- Waugh's Nostalgia Revisited -- The Sexual Politics of Mourning.
    [NT 15000229]: Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism illuminates the emergence of a fundamentally new way of thinking and writing about loss in the twentieth-century novel, one that spurns consolation and the conventional aim ofclosure. Inaugurated in the modernist novel, the rejection of consolation manages to promote a politically progressive politics of mourning. The modernist novel established as well the terms of a new mourning practice, terms whose democratizing aims would be challenged in the late-modernist period but ultimately reanimated and reworked by postmodern writers. In challenging the familiar view of modernist aesthetics as removed from social concerns and of postmodernist aesthetics as a self-reflexive language game incapable of representing affirmative content, Mourning, Modernism,Postmodernism demonstrates how novelists of some of the most experimental fiction of the century engage the open-ended aspects of loss to imagine new forms of identity and social change.
    Online resource: access to fulltext (Palgrave)
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