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In a Strange Room - Modernism's Corpses and Mortal Obligation (Hardcover)
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In a Strange Room - Modernism's Corpses and Mortal Obligation (Hardcover)
Series: Modernist Literature and Culture, 21
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Taking its title from Faulkner's epochal modernist novel, David
Sherman's study traces the myriad ways death and its effect on the
living defined modernist fiction and verse in England, Ireland, and
the U.S. A focus on the disturbing but recurring image of the
corpse allows Sherman to consider a range of texts marked by their
sense of mortal fragility. Wilfred Owen's war poetry and Virginia
Woolf's early novel Jacob's Room illustrate an incipient anxiety
over new governmental techniques for efficiently managing the
burial of the dead during World War I. Joyce's Ulysses and As I Lay
Dying offer opportunities to consider narratives organized by the
problem of an unburied corpse. Eliot's The Waste Land and Djuna
Barnes's novel Nightwood, which Eliot edited, demonstrate how
modernist writers often respond to death and the loss of
corporality with erotic encounters at the moment mortality is most
threatened. Two poems by William Carlos Williams and Wallace
Stevens, in the monograph's concluding section, provide emblems for
competing attitudes toward the disposal of the dead in the first
half of the twentieth century. Enriched by insights from
psychology, anthropology, and philosophy, In a Strange Room
presents a richly textured transatlantic study of a defining aspect
of modernist literature and culture.
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