Modernism And Mourning

Author : Patricia Rae
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838756171
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism and Mourning written by Patricia Rae and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Modernism and Mourning examine the work of mourning in modernist literature, or more precisely, its propensity for resisting this work. Drawing from recent developments in the theory and cultural history of mourning, its contributors explore the various ways in which modernist writers repudiate Freud's famous injunction to mourners to work through their grief, endorsing instead a resistant, or melancholic mourning that shapes both their themes and their radical experiments with form. The emerging picture of the pervasive influence of melancholic mourning in modernist literature casts new light on longstanding critical arguments, especially those about the politics of modernism. It also makes clear the pertinence of this literature to the present day, in which the catastrophic losses of 9/11, of retaliatory war, of racially motivated genocide, of the AIDS epidemic, have made the work of mourning a subject of widespread interest and debate. Patricia Rae is Head of the Department of English at Queen's University.

Author : T. Clewell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230274250
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism written by T. Clewell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism traces the emergence of a fundamentally new way of writing about individual and collective mourning, demonstrating how a refusal of consolation and closure succeeds in promoting a progressive cultural politics crucial for reimaging gender, racial, and sexual subjects.

Author : Lecia Rosenthal
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823233979
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mourning Modernism written by Lecia Rosenthal and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the writing of catastrophe, mass death, and collective loss in twentieth-century literature and criticism. With particular focus on texts by Woolf, Benjamin, and Sebald, it engages the century's preoccupation with world-ending, a mixed rhetoric of totality and rupture, finitude and survival, the end and its posthumous remainders. The spectacle of world-ending proliferates as a form of desire, an ambivalent compulsion to consume and outlive the end of all. In conversation with discussions of the century's passionfor the real, the author reads the century's obsession with negative forms of ending and outcome. Drawing connections between current interest in trauma and the sublime, she reframes the terms of the modernist experiment and its aesthetics from the lens of a late sublime

Author : Greg Forter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501240
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism written by Greg Forter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American modernist writers' engagement with changing ideas of gender and race often took the form of a struggle against increasingly inflexible categories. Greg Forter interprets modernism as an effort to mourn a form of white manhood that fused the 'masculine' with the 'feminine'. He argues that modernists were engaged in a poignant yet deeply conflicted effort to hold on to socially 'feminine' and racially marked aspects of identity, qualities that the new social order encouraged them to disparage. Examining works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Willa Cather, Forter shows how these writers shared an ambivalence toward the feminine and an unease over existing racial categories that made it difficult for them to work through the loss of the masculinity they mourned. Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism offers a bold reading of canonical modernism in the United States.

Author : Seth Moglen
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503626008
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mourning Modernity written by Seth Moglen and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 despair—between the fear that alienation and exploitation were irresistible facts of life and the yearning for a more just and liberated society. He traces this conflict in the works of a dozen novelists and poets – ranging from Eliot, Hemingway, and Faulkner to Hurston, Hughes, and Tillie Olsen. Taking John Dos Passos' neglected U.S.A. trilogy as a central case study, he demonstrates how the struggle between reparative social mourning and melancholic despair shaped the literary strategies of a major modernist writer and the political fate of the American Left. Mourning Modernity offers a bold new map of the modernist tradition, as well as an important contribution to the cultural history of American radicalism and to contemporary theoretical debates about mourning and trauma.

Author : Ariela Freedman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135383790
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death, Men, and Modernism written by Ariela Freedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, Men and Modernism argues that the figure of the dead man becomes a locus of attention and a symptom of crisis in British writing of the early to mid-twentieth century. While Victorian writers used dying women to dramatize aesthetic, structural, and historical concerns, modernist novelists turned to the figure of the dying man to exemplify concerns about both masculinity and modernity. Along with their representations of death, these novelists developed new narrative techniques to make the trauma they depicted palpable. Contrary to modernist genealogies, the emergence of the figure of the dead man in texts as early as Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure suggests that World War I intensified-but did not cause-these anxieties. This book elaborates a nodal point which links death, masculinity, and modernity long before the events of World War I.

Author : Esther Dreifuss-Kattan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317501101
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Mourning written by Esther Dreifuss-Kattan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and Mourning explores the relationship between creativity and the work of self-mourning in the lives of 20th century artists and thinkers. The role of artistic and creative endeavours is well-known within psychoanalytic circles in helping to heal in the face of personal loss, trauma, and mourning. In this book, Esther Dreifuss-Kattan, a psychoanalyst, art therapist and artist - analyses the work of major modernist and contemporary artists and thinkers through a psychoanalytic lens. In coming to terms with their own mortality, figures like Albert Einstein, Louise Bourgeois, Paul Klee, Eva Hesse and others were able to access previously unknown reserves of creative energy in their late works, as well as a new healing experience of time outside of the continuous temporality of everyday life. Dreifuss-Kattan explores what we can learn about using the creative process to face and work through traumatic and painful experiences of loss. Art and Mourning will inspire psychoanalysts and psychotherapists to understand the power of artistic expression in transforming loss and traumas into perseverance, survival and gain. Art and Mourning offers a new perspective on trauma and will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, psychologists, clinical social workers and mental health workers, as well as artists and art historians.

Author : Alice Kelly
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474459927
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commemorative Modernisms written by Alice Kelly and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlies British and American literary modernism.

Author : Madelyn Detloff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521896428
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Persistence of Modernism written by Madelyn Detloff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the persistence of modernism into the twenty-first century, and argues for its continued relevance in relation to contemporary traumas.

Author : Laura Doyle
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253217783
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geomodernisms written by Laura Doyle and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-22 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism as a global phenomenon is the focus of the essays gathered in this book. The term "geomodernisms" indicates their subjects' continuity with and divergence from commonly understood notions of modernism. The contributors consider modernism as it was expressed in the non-Western world; the contradictions at the heart of modernization (in revolutionary and nationalist settings, and with respect to race and nativism); and modernism's imagined geographies, "pyschogeographies" of distance and desire as viewed by the subaltern, the caste-bound, the racially mixed, the gender-determined.