03053nam 2200541 a 450 991045799690332120200520144314.00-8232-4120-30-8232-3399-5(CKB)2560000000052898(PromptCat)40019108003(MH)012732835-1(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035351(MiAaPQ)EBC3239553(Au-PeEL)EBL3239553(CaPaEBR)ebr10445324(OCoLC)708566783(EXLCZ)99256000000005289820101026d2011 uy 0engur|||||||||||Mourning modernism[electronic resource] literature, catastrophe, and the politics of consolation /Lecia Rosenthal1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20111 online resource (ix, 160 p. )ill. ;0-8232-3397-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Catastrophe culture, atrocity supplements -- Virginia Woolf: reading remains -- Walter Benjamin on radio: catastrophe for children -- On the late sublime: W. G. Sebald's The rings of saturn -- Toward a conclusion: the in-exhaustible catastrophe.This book examines the writing of catastrophe, mass death, and collective loss in twentieth-century literature and criticism. With particular focus on texts by Woolf, Benjamin, and Sebald, it engages the century's preoccupation with "world-ending," a mixed rhetoric of totality and rupture, finitude and survival, the end and its posthumous remainders. The spectacle of world-ending proliferates as a form of desire, an ambivalent compulsion to consume and outlive the end of all. In conversation with discussions of the century's passion for the real, the author reads the century's obsession with negative forms of ending and outcome. Drawing connections between current interest in trauma and the sublime, she reframes the terms of the modernist experiment and its aesthetics from the lens of a late sublime. Lecia Rosenthal is Assistant Professor of English at Tufts University. --Book Jacket.Disasters in literatureModernism (Literature)End of the world in literatureLiterature, Modern20th centuryHistory and criticismElectronic books.Disasters in literature.Modernism (Literature)End of the world in literature.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.809/.933552Rosenthal Lecia945243MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457996903321Mourning modernism2133897UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress