Romance in the time of modernism : a literature of silence /
This book is a comparative analysis of classic texts of the Western canon, with each text grounded on a modernist version of love. As the aesthetic of modernism is still an aesthetic of sublime, romance becomes a tale of beauty and terror.
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2025].
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Table of Contents:
- What was Modernism
- Beauty against the grain: the Great Gatsby
- Prufrock, the Underground man and, and the reader
- Modernist aesthetics: silence and absence
- Love in the age of anxiety.