Overview
Contributes significantly to understanding the models of selfhood and of living after loss that appear consistently in literary modernism
Focuses on several of the key literary forms of the period – including the short story, Imagist poetry, and narratives of interiority in the novel
Reads both canonical texts and overlooked works
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Spectrality, the Dead and Modernist Finitude
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Phantoms, Survivors, and Resistance Fantasies
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Beyond Finitude and Modernist others/Others
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“Haunting Modernisms offers a wonderfully rich and engaging re-examination of modernist texts. Through carefully theorised analyses of mourning, spectrality and otherness, it breathes new critical and ethical life into ghostly tropes. It presents challenges, too, not only setting modernist wolves amongst gothic sheep, but tracking the effects of those darker historical forms and energies that mere modernity cannot kill.” (Professor Fred Botting, Kingston University, UK)
“Haunting Modernisms undertakes a long overdue project of theoretically informed close readings of key modernist texts in terms of their pervasive spectrality. Foley's treatment of the spectral as a form of impasse in modernism suddenly brings new interpretive and ethical vistas into view. This book is sure to become a touchstone in the field.” (Professor Stephen Ross, University of Victoria, Canada)Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Haunting Modernisms
Book Subtitle: Ghostly Aesthetics, Mourning, and Spectral Resistance Fantasies in Literary Modernism
Authors: Matt Foley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65485-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65484-3Published: 20 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88040-2Published: 24 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65485-0Published: 11 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 222
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory