Romance in the Time of Modernism: A Literature of Silence reasserts
the theme of love in an age of anguish. Modernism has been and still
is studied and interpreted under multiple perspectives. However, there
is a lacuna in the corpus of scholarship: the theme of love has been
ignored. Being modernism iconoclastic and obscure in its premises, but
also dark in its conclusion, how do modernist characters love? This
book emphasizes the persistence of romance in an age of dissolution.
In spite of the homologation process that the industrial revolution
has started, modernist characters are still individuals of passion but
it is a passion they are incapable of telling. Love is a romance that
is blended with everything modernism is synonymous with: alienation,
nihilism, fragmentation, the terror of those who live in a universe
meant to be silent.
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A Literature of Silence
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ISBN
9781666967531
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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