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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154339203321

Autore

Bahun Sanja

Titolo

Modernism and melancholia : writing as countermourning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Modernist Literature & Culture Modernism and melancholia

Disciplina

809/.9112

Soggetti

Modernism (Literature)

Depression, Mental, in literature

Languages & Literatures

Slavic, Baltic and Albanian Languages & Literatures

Literature - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.