| #3230757 in Books | Fordham University Press | 2011-02-01 | 2011-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.30 x.90 x9.10l,.85 | File type: PDF | 192 pages | |||"Lecia Rosenthal’s intricate argument traces the engagement with catastrophe in the work of three exemplary figures, Woolf, Benjamin, and Sebald. She also offers a compelling diagnosis of modernism’s stubborn insistence that catastrophe must offer
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 the century’s signal preoccupation with “world-ending,” a mixed rhetoric of totality and rupture, finitude and survival, the end and its posthumous remainder...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Mourning Modernism: Literature, Catastrophe, and the Politics of Consolation | Lecia Rosenthal. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
