Modernism and Mourning

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Patricia Rae
Bucknell University Press, 2007 - 310 páginas
The essays in Modernism and Mourning examine the work of mourning in modernist literature, or more precisely, its propensity for resisting this work. Drawing from recent developments in the theory and cultural history of mourning, its contributors explore the various ways in which modernist writers repudiate Freud's famous injunction to mourners to work through their grief, endorsing instead a resistant, or melancholic mourning that shapes both their themes and their radical experiments with form. The emerging picture of the pervasive influence of melancholic mourning in modernist literature casts new light on longstanding critical arguments, especially those about the politics of modernism. It also makes clear the pertinence of this literature to the present day, in which the catastrophic losses of 9/11, of retaliatory war, of racially motivated genocide, of the AIDS epidemic, have made the work of mourning a subject of widespread interest and debate. Patricia Rae is Head of the Department of English at Queen's University.

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Acknowledgments
9
Modernist Mourning
13
Toward Survivable Public Mourning
50
The Evolution of Mourning in Siegfried Sassoons War Writing
69
Race Memorialization and Modernism in US Interwar Literature
85
Mourning and Jazz in the Poetry of Mina Loy
102
Ultramodernitys Mourning at the Little Review 191720
118
The Theory and Praxis of Death in the Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca
136
Mourning World War One and Dorothy L Sayers
185
D H Lawrence Collective Mourning and Cultural Reconstruction after World War I
198
Proleptic Elegy and the End of Arcadianism in 1930s Britain
213
Contemporary Mourning Theory Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby and the Politics of Unfinished Grief
239
Elizabeth Bowen and the Modern Unhomely
260
The Gift of Forgiveness in HD
271
When There Are So Many We Shall Have To Mourn
286
Contributors
296

Life after War in Ford Madox Fords The Last Post
154
The Failure to Mourn in Faulkners Sartoris
168

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Página 183 - Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.
Página 107 - We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter.
Página 61 - ... we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, the wisest, at least among "the children of this world,
Página 85 - In the tarpaper morgue at Chalons-sur-Marne in the reek of chloride of lime and the dead, they picked out the pine box that held all that was left of enie menie minie moe plenty other pine boxes stacked up there containing what they'd scraped up of Richard Roe and other person or persons unknown.
Página 97 - We are talking about characteristic elements of impulse, restraint, and tone; specifically affective elements of consciousness and relationships: not feeling against thought, but thought as felt and feeling as thought: practical consciousness of a present kind, in a living and inter-relating continuity.
Página 213 - Yes, we are going to suffer, now; the sky Throbs like a feverish forehead; pain is real; The groping searchlights suddenly reveal The little natures that will make us cry, Who never quite believed they could exist, Not where we were. They take us by surprise Like ugly long-forgotten memories, And like a conscience all the guns resist. Behind each sociable home-loving eye The private massacres are taking place; All Women, Jews, the Rich, the Human Race. The mountains cannot judge us when we lie: We...
Página 19 - No justice . . . seems possible or thinkable without the principle of some responsibility, beyond all living present, within that which disjoins the living present, before the ghosts of those who arc not yet born or who are already dead...
Página 45 - In the form of an image the object is absorbed into the subject instead of following the bidding of the alienated world and persisting obdurately in a state of reification. The contradiction between the object reconciled in the subject, ie, spontaneously absorbed into the subject...
Página 286 - When there are so many we shall have to mourn, When grief has been made so public, and exposed To the critique of a whole epoch The frailty of our conscience and anguish, Of whom shall we speak? For every day they die Among us, those who were doing us some good, And knew it was never enough but Hoped to improve a little by living.

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