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Responses to modernity : essays in the politics of culture

By Joseph , Frank

Book information

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
082323925X, 978-0-8232-3925-2, 9780823239290, 0823239292, 9780823246496, 0823246493
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1284138 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
234\246
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Criticism -- History -- 20th century. LiteratureModern -- 20th century -- History and criticism. LModern.

Description

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. The first portion of the volume concerns France, with both essays on individual writers such as Paul Valéry, Jacques Maritain, Albert Camus, André Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Yves Bonnefoy and a piece on French intellectuals between the wars.The second part concerns Germany and Romania, with essays on Ernst Juenger, Gottfried Benn, Erich Kahler, E. M. Cioran, and others. The volume concludes with essays on problems of literary criticism, in dialogue with such critics as Gary Saul Morson, Ian Watt, T. S. Eliot, and R. P. Blackmur. These essays also discuss the history of the novel and the question of "realism."

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