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Literature, life, and modernity / Richard Eldridge.
LIBRA PN49 .E43 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eldridge, Richard Thomas, 1953-
- Series:
- Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- European literature--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- Literature and society.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 178 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction : subjectivity, modernity, and the uses of literature
- Romanticism, Cartesianism, Humeanism, Byronism : Stoppard's Arcadia
- Romantic subjectivity in Goethe and Wittgenstein
- Attention, expressive power, and interest in life : Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"
- The ends of literary narrative : Rilke's "Archaic torso of Apollo"
- "New centers of reflection are continually forming" : Benjamin, Sebald, and modern human life in time.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-174) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231144544
- 0231144547
- 9780231515528
- 0231515529
- OCLC:
- 191010019
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