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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Joseph, 1918-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism--History--20th century.

Criticism.

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

Literature, Modern.

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

Literature and society.

Realism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 234 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

Summary:

This collection consists of essays and reviews that address social, political, and cultural issues which arose in connection with literature broadly conceived in the wake of World War I, and extending throughout the twentieth century. It covers France, with essays on individual writers and on French intellectuals between the wars; Germany and Romania; and essays on problems of literary criticism that also discuss the history of the novel and the question of 'realism'.

Contents:

pt. 1. France

pt. 2. Germany and Romania

pt. 3. Critics and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-4701-5

0-8232-3929-2

OCLC:

923763721