| Contents |
States of marriage -- Poetry, prose, and a forgotten practice -- "Civilization must be saved" -- Interlude : the falling empire -- Isotopes of love -- From poem to volume -- Anthropology, hell, goodbye -- Coda : closing and opening thoughts. |
| Abstract |
"Concentrating on W. H. Auden's work from the late 1930s, when he seeks to understand the poet's responsibility in the face of a triumphant fascism, to the late 1950s, when he discerns an irreconcilable "divorce" between poetry and history in light of industrialized murder, this startling new study reveals the intensity of the poet's struggles with the meanings of history. Through meticulous readings, significant archival findings, and critical reflection, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb presents a new image and understanding of Auden's achievement and reveals how his version of modernism illuminates urgent contemporary issues and theoretical paradigms: from the meaning of marriage equality to the persistence of fascism; from critical theory to psychoanalysis; from precarity to postcolonial studies. "The muse does not like being forced to choose between Agit-prop and Mallarm e," Auden writes with characteristic lucidity, and this study elucidates the probity, humor, and technical skill with which his responses to historical reality in the mid-twentieth century illuminate our world today"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Gottlieb, Susannah Young-ah. Auden and the muse of history. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2022 9781503633933 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| LCCN | 2022022189 |
| ISBN | 9781503633926 |
| ISBN | 9781503633155 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1503633152 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1503633926 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
