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Romance in the time of modernism : a literature of silence / Alberto Castelli.
Van Pelt Library PN56.M54 C375 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castelli, Alberto, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modernism (Literature).
- Canon (Literature).
- Genre:
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 109 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2025]
- Summary:
- "This book is a comparative analysis of classic texts of the Western canon, with each text grounded on a modernist version of love. As the aesthetic of modernism is still an aesthetic of sublime, romance becomes a tale of beauty and terror"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- What was Modernism
- Beauty against the grain: the Great Gatsby
- Prufrock, the Underground man and, and the reader
- Modernist aesthetics: silence and absence
- Love in the age of anxiety.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Castelli, Alberto. Romance in the time of modernism
- ISBN:
- 9781666967524
- 1666967521
- OCLC:
- 1453287247
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