Modernism and melancholia : writing as countermourning

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bahun, Sanja, Author.

Series:

Modernist literature & culture.

Modernist Literature & Culture Modernism and melancholia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

Depression, Mental, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Modernism and melancholia

Modernist literature & culture

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 'modernism' that a fundamental shift in our understanding of melancholia occurred. This study addresses these questions by focusing on the manifestations of melancholia in modernist fiction internationally.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 13, 2013).