Introduction: Towards the modernist corpse -- The state's unending vigil: Owen's and Woolf's unknown warrior -- Joyce, Faulkner, and the modernist burial plot -- The erotics of mortal obligation in Eliot and Barnes -- Coda: Williams and Stevens, inventing farewell
Summary
Sherman investigates modernism's corpses and the ethical demands they make on the living. His readings of poetry and fiction by a range of authors return to fundamental questions about modernism's ability to reconstruct the symbolic locations of the dead and to rearticulate for modern consciousness one's obligations to another's dying and dead body
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 14, 2014)
