Bibliograph

Modernization and the crisis of memory, John Donne to Don DeLillo, Philipp Wolf

Type

Label

Modernization and the crisis of memory, John Donne to Don DeLillo, Philipp Wolf

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-206) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Modernization and the crisis of memory

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

50207580

Responsibility statement

Philipp Wolf

Series statement

Costerus new ser., v. 139

Sub title

John Donne to Don DeLillo

Table Of 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

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