Tense future : modernism, total war, encyclopedic form

'Tense Future' falls into two parts. The first develops a critical account of total war discourse and addresses the resistant potential of acts, including acts of writing, before a future that looks barred or pre-determined by war. Part two shifts the focus to long inter-war narratives tha...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Saint-Amour, Paul K.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Zusammenfassung:
'Tense Future' falls into two parts. The first develops a critical account of total war discourse and addresses the resistant potential of acts, including acts of writing, before a future that looks barred or pre-determined by war. Part two shifts the focus to long inter-war narratives that pit both their scale and their formal turbulence against total war's portrait of the social totality, producing both ripostes and alternatives to that portrait in the practice of literary encyclopedism.
Umfang:
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Anmerkungen:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-020097-9
Schlagworte:
Modernism (Literature)
War and literature.
War in literature.
Languages & Literatures
Literature - General
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