Modernism and MourningPatricia Rae Bucknell University Press, 2007 - 310 Seiten 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. |
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Toward Survivable Public Mourning | 50 |
The Evolution of Mourning in Siegfried Sassoons War Writing | 69 |
Race Memorialization and Modernism in US Interwar Literature | 85 |
Mourning and Jazz in the Poetry of Mina Loy | 102 |
Ultramodernitys Mourning at the Little Review 191720 | 118 |
The Theory and Praxis of Death in the Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca | 136 |
Mourning World War One and Dorothy L Sayers | 185 |
D H Lawrence Collective Mourning and Cultural Reconstruction after World War I | 198 |
Proleptic Elegy and the End of Arcadianism in 1930s Britain | 213 |
Contemporary Mourning Theory Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby and the Politics of Unfinished Grief | 239 |
Elizabeth Bowen and the Modern Unhomely | 260 |
The Gift of Forgiveness in HD | 271 |
When There Are So Many We Shall Have To Mourn | 286 |
Contributors | 296 |
Life after War in Ford Madox Fords The Last Post | 154 |
The Failure to Mourn in Faulkners Sartoris | 168 |
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