Literature, life, and modernity / Richard Eldridge.

Author/creator Eldridge, Richard Thomas, 1953-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxii, 178 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects

SeriesColumbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts
Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts. ^A699779
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [157]-174) and index.
LCCN 2008001172
ISBN9780231144544 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0231144547 (acid-free paper)
ISBN9780231515528 (e-book)
ISBN0231515529 (e-book)

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Joyner General Stacks PN 49 .E43 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold