LEADER 03053nam 2200541 a 450 001 9910457996903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-4120-3 010 $a0-8232-3399-5 035 $a(CKB)2560000000052898 035 $a(PromptCat)40019108003 035 $a(MH)012732835-1 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000035351 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239553 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239553 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10445324 035 $a(OCoLC)708566783 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000052898 100 $a20101026d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 200 10$aMourning modernism$b[electronic resource] $eliterature, catastrophe, and the politics of consolation /$fLecia Rosenthal 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 160 p. )$cill. ; 311 $a0-8232-3397-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCatastrophe 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. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aDisasters in literature 606 $aModernism (Literature) 606 $aEnd of the world in literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDisasters in literature. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aEnd of the world in literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809/.933552 700 $aRosenthal$b Lecia$0945243 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457996903321 996 $aMourning modernism$92133897 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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