Responses to modernity : essays in the politics of culture / Joseph Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Joseph, 1918-2013.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--20th century.

Criticism.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature and society--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Realism in literature.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 234 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

Contents:

Part 1 France

1 Paul Valéry: Masters and Friends 5

2 Jacques Maritain: Medieval Modernism 22

3 Camus as Journalist 34

4 André Malraux: A Hero of His Time 45

5 Yves Bonnefoy: Notes of an Admirer 61

6 Racine and Anti-Semitism 78

7 Nicola Chiaromonte: The Ethics of Politics 86

8 French Intellectuals between the Wars 96

9 Sartre: An Existentialist in the Underworld 105

Part 2 Germany and Romania

10 Ernst Juenger: An Impenitent Prussian 111

11 The "Double Life" of Gottfried Benn 116

12 Erich Kahler and the Quest for a Human Absolute 120

13 Eliade, Cioran, Ionesco: The Treason of the Intellectuals 136

Part 3 Critics and Criticism

14 Eliot's Legacy 157

15 The Novel in Wonderland 165

16 R. P. Blackmur's Texts: An Introduction 177

17 Ian Watt: A Tribute 187

18 Gary Saul Morson's Narrative and Freedom 204

19 Lilian Furst and the Art of Literary Realism 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

082323925X

9780823239252

OCLC:

767974172

Publisher Number:

99949296736