Modernism and melancholia : writing as countermourning

Modernism and melancholia : writing as countermourning / Sanja Bahun.

Modernism and melancholia share intellectual fate: being at once categories, conditions, discourses, modes of expression, and social projects, they feed on their own ambiguity. But modernism and melancholia also share a history: it was in the cultural-historical period we tentatively term 'mode...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bahun, Sanja (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Series:Modernist literature & culture.
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature)
Depression, Mental, in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Depression, Mental, in literature
Languages & Literatures.
Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures.
Literature - General.
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Table of Contents:
  • Modernism: The rise of countermourning
  • Andrei Bely and the spaces of historical melancholia
  • Schlossgeschichten werden erzählt?: Franz Kafka and the empty depth of modernity
  • Virginia Woolf and the search for historical patterns
  • Conclusion: Redescribing the world: closing apertures.

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