In a strange room : modernism's corpses and mortal obligation PDF
Preview In a strange room : modernism's corpses and mortal obligation
ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999333333888822..iinndddd vvii 11//3300//22001144 44::5522::2200 PPMM In a Strange Room ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999333333888822..iinndddd ii 11//3300//22001144 44::5522::1177 PPMM Modernist Literature & Culture Kevin J. H. Dettmar & Mark Wollaeger, Series Editors Consuming Traditions Americanizing Britain Elizabeth Outka Genevieve Abravanel Machine Age Comedy Modernism and the New Spain Michael North Gayle Rogers Th e Art of Scandal At the Violet Hour Sean Latham Sarah Cole Th e Hypothetical Mandarin Fictions of Autonomy Eric Hayot Andrew Goldstone Nations of Nothing But Poetry Th e Great American Songbooks Matthew Hart T .Austin Graham Modernism & Copyright Without Copyrights Paul K. Saint-Amour Robert Spoo Accented America Th e Degenerate Muse Joshua L. Miller Robin Schulze Criminal Ingenuity Commonwealth of Letters Ellen Levy Peter J. Kalliney Modernism’s Mythic Pose Modernism and Melancholia Carrie J. Preston Sanja Bahun Pragmatic Modernism Digital Modernism Lisa Schoenbach Jessica Pressman Unseasonable Youth In a Strange Room Jed Esty David Sherman World Views Jon Hegglund ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999333333888822..iinndddd iiii 11//3300//22001144 44::5522::2200 PPMM In a Strange Room Modernism’s Corpses and Mortal Obligation David Sherman 1 ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999333333888822..iinndddd iiiiii 11//3300//22001144 44::5522::2200 PPMM 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Th ailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 © Oxford University Press 2014 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sherman, David, 1971– In a Strange Room: Modernism's Corpses and Mortal Obligation / David Sherman. pages cm. — (Modernist Literature & Culture ; 23) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–19–933388–2 (acid-free paper) 1. Modernism (Literature) 2. Death in literature. I. Title. PN56.M54S55 2014 809′.9112—dc23 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999333333888822..iinndddd iivv 11//3300//22001144 44::5522::2200 PPMM For my parents, in friendship and love— fi rst teachers, fi rst readers, fi rst storytellers. ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999333333888822..iinndddd vv 11//3300//22001144 44::5522::2200 PPMM ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999333333888822..iinndddd vvii 11//3300//22001144 44::5522::2200 PPMM Contents Series Editors’ Foreword ix Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xiii Introduction: Toward the Modernist Corpse 1 1. Th e State’s Unending Vigil: Owen’s and Woolf’s Unknown Warrior 43 2. Joyce, Faulkner, and the Modernist Burial Plot 108 3. Th e Erotics of Mortal Obligation in Eliot and Barnes 146 Coda: Williams and Stevens, Inventing Farewell 1 94 Notes 205 Bibliography 251 Index 269 ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999333333888822..iinndddd vviiii 11//3300//22001144 44::5522::2200 PPMM ooxxffoorrddhhbb--99778800119999333333888822..iinndddd vviiiiii 11//3300//22001144 44::5522::2200 PPMM
The list of books you might like
