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In a Strange Room : Modernism's Corpses and Mortal Obligation
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sherman, David, Author.
- Series:
- Modernist literature & culture ; 23.
- Modernist Literature & Culture In a strange room
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Literature).
- Death in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- In a strange room
- Modernist literature & culture vol. 23
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 14, 2014).
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