Author : Anne Enderwitz
Release : 2015-07-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 320/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Modernist Melancholia by : Anne Enderwitz
Download or read book Modernist Melancholia written by Anne Enderwitz. This book was released on 2015-07-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernist Melancholia explores modernism's melancholic roots through the detailed discussion of writings by Freud, Conrad and Ford. Melancholia ties modernism to the 19th-century obsession with loss and continuity and, at the same time, constitutes a formative moment in the history of 20th-century literature, modern subjectivity and critical theory