Responses to Modernity : Essays in the Politics of Culture / Joseph Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Joseph, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book consists of essays and reviews that address social, political, and cultural issues which arose in connection with literature broadly conceived in the wake of the First World War, and extending throughout the twentieth century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Previous Publication

Introduction

Part one. France

1. Paul Valéry: Masters and Friends

2. Jacques Maritain: Medieval Modernism

3. Camus as Journalist

4. Andre Malraux: A Hero of His Time

5. Yves Bonnefoy: Notes of an Admirer

6. Racine and Anti-Semitism

7. Nicola Chiaromonte: The Ethics of Politics

8. French Intellectuals between the Wars

9. Sartre: An Existentialist in the Underworld

Part two. Germany and Romania

10. Ernst Juenger: An Impenitent Prussian

11. The ‘‘Double Life’’ of Gottfried Benn

12. Erich Kahler and the Quest for a Human Absolute

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

Part three. Critics and Criticism

14. Eliot’s Legacy

15. The Novel in Wonderland

16. R. P. Blackmur’s Texts: An Introduction

17. Ian Watt: A Tribute

18. Gary Saul Morson’s Narrative and Freedom

19. Lilian Furst and the Art of Literary Realism

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022)

ISBN:

0-8232-9249-5

OCLC:

1350685439