In a strange room : modernism's corpses and mortal obligation

In a strange room : modernism's corpses and mortal obligation / David Sherman.

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 cons...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sherman, David, 1971- (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Series:Modernist literature & culture ; 23.
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature)
Death in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Death in literature
Languages & Literatures.
Literature - General.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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