The ghosts of modernity / Jean-Michel Rabaté. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 1949-

Rabatâe, Jean-Michel, Author.

Series:

Crosscurrents (Gainesville, Fla.)

Crosscurrents

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

Criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 258 p. )

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

The master of colors that know

André Breton's ghostly stance

Roland Barthes, ghostwriter of modernity

Mallarmé's crypts

Verlaine and Mallarmé between the angels and the ghosts of languages

Modernity as crime (Broch), or, The sleepwalking of theory

Beckett and the ghosts of departed quantities

Shades of the color gray

Uncoupling modernism

Conclusion, The "moderns" and their ghosts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-8130-2327-0