Romance in the Time of Modernism: A Literature of Silence - Hardcover

by Alberto Castelli (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Alberto Castelli is writer and humanities professor at Hainan University, China.