JOURNAL ARTICLE

Losing Loss.

  • Published In: Modernism/Modernity, 2023, v. 30, n. 1. P. 208 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Napolin, Julie Beth 3 of 3

Abstract

Though Wasserman studies the American novel in its archival quality, cataloging objects and our attachment to them, American literature more broadly for both authors is also prospective in its view. It was repeatedly on my mind while reading Sarah Wasserman's I The Death of Things i , a study of postwar American literature that is also a book for our times in its attunement to minor acts of preservation by vulnerable subjects. Edwards discovers in the corpse - startlingly visible and audible across American modernist literature from William Faulkner to Jean Toomer and Djuna Barnes - a fragile human body that is also part of "a larger ecology of things" and, like ephemera, involved in "reciprocal exchanges with the natural world 209 around it" (31-32). [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Modernism/Modernity. 2023/01, Vol. 30, Issue 1, p208
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Literature and Writing
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:1071-6068
  • DOI:10.1353/mod.2023.a902615
  • Accession Number:165109672
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