In a Strange Room
Modernism's Corpses and Mortal Obligation
Literary modernism emerged as death, stripped in the developing world of traditional meanings and practices, became strange. The sea-change over the first part of the twentieth century in how people died and tended corpses-the modernization of death-was a crucial context in which modernist writers developed their new novelistic and poetic techniques. They sought ways to renovate mortal obligations in an age of the obsolescence of the dead.For many years, the flesh-and-blood body has been a central protagonist in literary scholarship--the body in pain, the body as spectacle and performance, embodiments of social identity--but the body in its m…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-933389-9
- EAN: 9780199333899
- Produktnummer: 16949852
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 35'748 KB
- Abbildungen: 20 illus.
Über den Autor
David Sherman is Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis University.
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