Anne Enderwitz, "Modernist Melancholia: Freud, Conrad and Ford"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1349567019 | PDF | pages: 238 | 1.1 mb
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1349567019 | PDF | pages: 238 | 1.1 mb
Modernist Melancholia explores modernism's melancholic roots through the detailed discussion of writings by Freud, Conrad and Ford. Melancholia ties modernism to the 19th-century obsession with loss and continuity and, at the same time, constitutes a formative moment in the history of 20th-century literature, modern subjectivity and critical theory