The Persistence of Modernism
Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century
- Paperback
- ISBN:9780521182461
- Publication date:February 2011
- 226pages
- Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.31kg
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Examines the continued relevance of modernism in the early twenty first century, a time of escalating loss, retribution and desire. Some of the social formations that inspired modernism are still with us, and Detloff argues that the resilient writing of modernist figures offers us insight into our own contemporary traumas.


