Research Catalog

Title

Mourning modernism [electronic resource] : literature, catastrophe, and the politics of consolation / Lecia Rosenthal.

Author

Rosenthal, Lecia.

Publication

New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.

Details

Description

1 online resource (ix, 160 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Mourning modernism (Online)

Alternative Title

Mourning modernism (Online)

Subject

• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Criticism and interpretation
• Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 > Criticism and interpretation
• Sebald, W. G. 1944-2001 > Criticism and interpretation
• Disasters in literature
• Modernism (Literature)
• End of the world in literature
• Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-155) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

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.

LCCN

2010045575

OCLC

ssj0000486002

Author

Rosenthal, Lecia.

Title

Mourning modernism [electronic resource] : literature, catastrophe, and the politics of consolation / Lecia Rosenthal.

Imprint

New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.

Edition

1st ed.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-155) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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