BIBFRAME Work

Title

Romance in the time of modernism

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Castelli, Alberto, 1978- (author)

Subject

• Canon (Literature) (LCSH)
• Modernism (Literature) (LCSH)

Genre Form

• Literary criticism (LCGFT)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 809.9112 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: PN56.M54 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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 -- Expressionist loves.

Authorized Access Point

Castelli, Alberto, 1978-. Romance in the time of modernism

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:38:52.703985+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23839531

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• Description language: eng
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