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Paperback The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century Book

ISBN: 0521182468

ISBN13: 9780521182461

The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century

Modernism is commonly perceived as a response to the cataclysmic events of the early twentieth century. To what extent then can we explain its continued persistence? Madelyn Detloff argues for modernism's relevance to our own age, a time of escalating loss, retribution and desire. Some of the social formations that inspired modernist cultural production - xenophobic nationalism and imperial hubris - are still with us. Writers such as Virginia Woolf...

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