Modernization and the crisis of memory : John Donne to Don DeLillo / Philipp Wolf.

Author/creator Wolf, Philipp author.
Format Book
PublicationAmsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2002.
Description211 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCosterus new series ; 139
Costerus ; new ser., v. 139. ^A110591
Contents Early modern to romantic: the secularization of memory -- The Victorian evaporation of memory : The standardization of time: industry and transport -- Written and pictorial information and sensationalism -- Retrochic, novelty and reification -- Reification -- Historicism -- Representation (and the failure of typology) -- History and memory as construction -- Jewish messianic memory as a utopian alternative -- The demise of cyclical history and historical contingency -- Modernism: Epiphanic memory : Walter Pater and T.E. Hulme -- Modernist epiphany and amnesia -- W.B. Yeats -- Postmodernism: memory as paranoia and literary construction (Don DeLillo) : Alienation and narrative countermemory -- Postmodern culture and the decline of organic memory -- The collective memory of waste and the bomb -- Individual countermemory.
Local noteJoyner-FOR JOYNER LIBRARY HOLDINGS OF THE SERIES, COSTERUS, SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER PE1.C66.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 197-206) and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
ISBN9042015284 (pbk.)
ISBN9789042015289 (pbk.)
ISBN9789024015283 (pbk.)
ISBN9024015286 (pbk.)
ISBN9042013001
ISBN9789042013001

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