Rosenthal, Lecia.

Mourning modernism literature, catastrophe, and the politics of consolation / [electronic resource] : Lecia Rosenthal. - 1st ed. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2011. - ix, 160 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Catastrophe 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.


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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 --Criticism and interpretation.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 --Criticism and interpretation.
Sebald, Winfried Georg, 1944-2001 --Criticism and interpretation.


Disasters in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
End of the world in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century


Electronic books.

PN56.D555 / R67 2011eb

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