In a Strange Room

by David Sherman

Literary modernism emerged as death, stripped in the developing world of traditional meanings and practices, became strange. The sea-change over the first part of the twentieth century in how people died and tended corpses-the modernization of death-was a crucial context in which modernist writers developed their new novelistic and poetic techniques. They sought ways to renovate mortal obligations in an age of the obsolescence of the dead.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199333882
• ISBN13: 9780199333882
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"