In a Strange Room: Modernism's Corpses and Mortal Obligation (Modernist Literature and Culture)

Synopsis

Sherman Investigates Modernism's Corpses And The Ethical Demands They Make On The Living. His Readings Of Poetry And Fiction By A Range Of Authors Return To Fundamental Questions About Modernism's Ability To Reconstruct The Symbolic Locations Of The Dead And To Rearticulate For Modern Consciousness One's Obligations To Another's Dying And Dead Body. Introduction: Towards The Modernist Corpse -- The State's Unending Vigil: Owen's And Woolf's Unknown Warrior -- Joyce, Faulkner, And The Modernist Burial Plot -- The Erotics Of Mortal Obligation In Eliot And Barnes -- Coda: Williams And Stevens, Inventing Farewell. David Sherman. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 251-268) And Index.