Responses to Modernity : Essays in the Politics of Culture.
Title:
Responses to Modernity : Essays in the Politics of Culture.
Author:
Frank, Joseph.
ISBN:
9780823247011
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (246 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Previous Publication -- Introduction -- PART ONE France -- 1. Paul V́alery: 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 -- 10. Ernst Juenger: An Impenitent Prussian -- PART TWO Germany and Romania -- 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 -- 14. Eliot's Legacy -- PART THREE Critics and Criticism -- 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.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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