| Description |
310 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
"Tis not my nature to join in hating, but in loving" : toward survivable public mourning / Madelyn Detloff -- The evolution of mourning in Siegfried Sassoon's war writing / Andrew J. Kunka -- "How did they pick John Doe" : race, memorialization, and modernism in US interwar literature / Mark Whalan -- Mourning and jazz in the poetry of Mina Loy / Tanya Dalziell -- "Blasé sorrow" : ultramodernity's mourning at The little review, 1917-20 / Anita Helle -- Morphology of the duende : the theory and praxis of death in the poetry of Federico García Lorca / Eric Reinholtz -- Mourning and moving on : life after war in Ford Madox Ford's The last post / Eve Sorum -- The failure to mourn in Faulkner's Sartoris / Pearl James -- Consoling fictions : mourning, World War One, and Dorothy L. Sayers / Stacy Gillis -- D.H. Lawrence, collective mourning, and cultural reconstruction after World War 1 / Marlene A. Briggs -- Double sorrow : proleptic elegy and the end of Arcadianism in 1930s Britain / Patricia Rae -- Against melancholia : contemporary mourning theory, Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby, and the politics of unfinished grief / Greg Forter -- Monumental city : Elizabeth Bowen and the modern unhomely / Eluned Summers-Bremner -- Mourning to the limit : the gift of forgiveness in H.D. / Jill Scott |
| Notes |
"This project was initially conceived at a seminar on 'Modernism and mourning' held at the Modernist Studies Association annual conference in Madison, Wisconsin, in October 2003." --p. 9 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Mourning customs in literature.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Modernism (Literature) -- Congresses.
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Mourning customs in literature -- Congresses.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Rae, Patricia, 1956-
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Modernist Studies Association.
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| LC no. |
2006018184 |
| ISBN |
0838756174 alkaline paper |
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9780838756171 alkaline paper |
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