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Mourning, modernism, postmodernism / Tammy Clewell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Description: viii, 185 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230231948 (hardback)
  • 0230231942 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.393 CLE
Contents:
Introduction: Rethinking loss; remapping the novel -- Pt. I. Inceptions -- Woolf and the Great War -- Economies of loss in Faulkner's fiction -- Pt. II. Legacies -- Waugh's nostalgia revisited -- The sexual politics of mourning.
Summary: "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"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Rethinking loss; remapping the novel -- Pt. I. Inceptions -- Woolf and the Great War -- Economies of loss in Faulkner's fiction -- Pt. II. Legacies -- Waugh's nostalgia revisited -- The sexual politics of mourning.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

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